Outsourcing your research to Kaggle for co-authorship or other non monetary options
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.)