# Welcome to the Numerai forums

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/welcome-to-the-numerai-forums/7>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/welcome-to-the-numerai-forums/7 "2020-03-15T03:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/numerai/original/1X/bea71c23d60806887f6fecacf14c1c7fcf1df935.png) [@system](https://forum.numer.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/welcome-to-the-numerai-forums/7/1 "2020-03-15T03:55:01Z")

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Numerai is a data science tournament that powers the Numerai hedge fund.

## [Who is this for?](#who)

These forums are meant for anyone participating in the Numerai data science tournament to discuss relevant topics and share information with the community.

## [When to use Discord vs Forums](#vs)

Discord is good for short-form realtime community chat for sharing small ideas, links, etc. However, the search function isn’t great and doesn’t lend itself well to research or self-directed learning. The Forum is better for long-form asynchronous data science discussions and doubles as a searchable corpus of these valuable discussions.

## [What else can they find here?](#what)

- Tournament Announcements
- Long form posts on data analysis, tips, tutorials
- Miscellaneous topics

## [Logging into the Forum](#account)

This forum uses the [Numerai Tournament](http://numer.ai/tournament) as a single sign on (SSO) provider. To login into the forum, click the ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/numerai/original/1X/578f5bcf42def8622800e4297763e9fb59c69550.png) button in the top right navbar and you will be authenticated via SSO.  
If you do not have a Tournament account, you can creation one [here](https://numer.ai/signup).

For users who manage multiple Tournament accounts, if you were logged into the Forum with the wrong account, you can logout via user profile menu - then re-authenticate with your primary Tournament account.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/numerai/original/1X/3646c2018d291e1f2b012eccdfa7a0d58eb5c6a6.png)

## [Account details (email, username, bio, profile picture)](#account-details)

All account profile information is synchronized via SSO. This means that changes in your Tournament [account settings](https://numer.ai/account) will be reflected on the forum. For this reason, you are —unable to modify theses fields on your Forum site.

## [Where can they read more (links, resources, etc)?](#where)

- Watch the [meta-model video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJnt0N497c) to get an idea of what we’re building.
- Tournament [documentation](https://docs.numer.ai)
- [Data analysis tips](https://github.com/numerai/example-scripts/blob/master/analysis_and_tips.ipynb)

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**Author:** ![pschork](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/pschork/32/2495_2.png) [@pschork](https://forum.numer.ai/u/pschork)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/welcome-to-the-numerai-forums/7/4 "2022-12-26T19:42:28Z")

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