by: Derrick Harris | GigaOM.com

In publishing, analytics matter a lot. There’s a constant struggle to determine who will read what posts or articles, what the ideal headline might be and when publishing makes the most sense. That’s why GigaOM is teaming with Splunk to help find that answer.

We’re hosting a competition on Kaggle’s data science platform to find the best models around likely readership across the WordPress (see disclosure) ecosystem of blogs. Here are the details: