Outsourcing your research to Kaggle for co-authorship or other non monetary options Some parts of our research fall out of our expertise. We thought about creating a Kaggle challenge just for this part. But we lack fund resources for the reward, so we could not offer any money. We are thinking now about offering co-authorship in a paper, do you think this would work? Otherwise, which other things would you offer as reward in Kaggle apart from money?
It's true that fitting the Kaggle competition framework is a bit of a constraint, but if you understand that framework and see how your problem fits into it, I'd suggest you e-mail quote@kaggle.com with a description of the data &amp; problem (and ideally sample data), even if you don't have funding. We can see what comes of it!

(Disclaimer: I work for Kaggle.)