TD Ameritrade has recognized and embraced the need for developing tools and programs to stimulate and support novel, collaborative, applied data science research activity. TD Ameritrade's collaborative data science platform evolved through its commitment to knowledge development as it relates to understanding trading and financial markets. Researchers will gain unprecedented access to proprietary data, domain expertise, and computing capacity.

We welcome proposals for applied data science research projects in the following areas.

Behavior-Based-Segmentation
Long-Term-Investment
Financial Risk
Financial System Resilience

Accepted proposals will be given access to TD Ameritrade data and invited to present their proposals and initial findings at the 1st Collaborative Data Science Conference at TD Ameritrade in Jersey City, NJ, June 10-11, 2015