If you are interested in our datathon then:

• carefully read the following Eligibility and Requirements sections,

• register to the devpost page and subscribe to the AI2S Winter Datathon 2021.

Upon registration, we will send you a link to the association Teams channel, the email that you will indicate in the subscription form will be our main communication channel with you.

All official communications will be also published in the Datathon News Page.

The official rules of the Contest are included in the PDF flile that you can find in the Rules section of this page.

The winner of the first place 🏆🥇 in the competition will receive a 500€ prize!!! 💰💰💰💶💶💶

The winner will be the best overall project taking into account all the judging criteria (see the "Judging criteria" section below).

Participants that do not comply with the following requirements may be rejected or disqualified by AI2S in its sole discretion:

• Participant must be 18 years old, and in their majority according to the jurisdiction of the country of residence of the participants at the start of the datathon.

• Organizers, volunteers, judges, sponsors, or in any other privileged position at the event are not eligible to participate in the datathon.

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO PARTICIPATE?

AI2S Winter Datathon is a team-based competition. Entrants can build a team, composed of one to five members, or participate singularily (they will be considered as a single member team). The enrolment to the contest consists of two compulsory stages, to be strictly done in the following order:

• Entrants eligible for the competition must create an account on Devpost and register to the event.

• Teams must choose a Team Leader (which coincides with the single participant in case the team is composed by a single element) who is the only member of the team who must fill in the google form, by the end of the subscription deadline (25th of February).

• Once correctly concluded the latter steps, entrants will be officially considered as participants to the event.

WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING FOR SUBMISSION?

To qualify for prizes, participants must respect the following submission requirements:

• Team Leaders ONLY have to submit their solution to Devpost platform (according to the Devpost's requirements) by adding a ZIP file taking the name of their team and which must contain the following elements:

  1. A CSV file containing the prediction of the target variable (named as prediction.csv).

  2. A PDF file, composed of maximum three pages, containing the logical process adopted for the resolution of the problem, having as font the Times New Roman of size 12pt (named as report.pdf).

  3. A FOLDER containing the developed code capable of reproducing the prediction (named as src). The FOLDER should also contain a description of the resources needed to correctly create and/or execute the executable code. The internal structure of the FOLDER is at the discretion of the participant.

• Participants must develop the code using only open source software, licensed under an Open Source Initiative approved license (open-source.org/licenses), and are not allowed to use any other data sources than the dataset released by AI2S at the beginning of the datathon.

• A visual representation of the above can be found at the following github repository.

Based on the prediction.csv files received from the teams participating at the competition, a Top 10 Ranking will be created using the RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) score (the less the better). Only submissions within the Top 10 Ranking will be evaluated by the judges and will compete for the final prize.

Clarity
Has the candidate expressed his/her proposed solution in a scientific and procedural manner (report.pdf)?

Motivation of Choice
Has the candidate justified his/her choices with concrete hypothesis (report.pdf)?

Accuracy
The accuracy of the predictions will be evaluated using the root-mean-square error, or the square root of the quadratic mean of the differences between the predicted and observed values (prediction.csv).