An hackathon to solve a real-world problem
during one night

Stats Under the Stars (SUS) is a hackathon for MSc and PhD students, where the teams have a full night to compete in the analysis of a real-world analytics problem. This year, SUS9 (21 – 22 June 2026) is organized by Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Statistical Sciences in collaboration with Young SIS (y-SIS).

It is a satellite event of the SIS-FENStatS 2026 conference (Rome,  22 – 25 June 2026).

The event is endorsed by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS)  and supported by selected partners, with a new sponsor to be announced soon.

SUS9 is the ninth  edition of the event Stats Under the Stars. For information regarding the past editions, you can have a look at the last two editions at the following webpages:

• SUS8 @ University of Genoa

• SUS7 @ University of Salento

The main goal of the competition is to develop analytic solutions that can accurately solve a real-world problem using all available exogenous and endogenous information. All teams are assigned the same business problem and the same dataset.

Cooperation is allowed, but not encouraged if you want to be the winning team. Both the response and the predictors are made available for a subset of the data (training set), whereas only the predictors are available for the remaining part (test set). 

Each team can submit its strategy at any time during the competition through the Bee-Viva platform. The platform evaluates the performances online on a temporary test set and provides a provisional leaderboard.

By the end of the night, the teams must also submit a concise but accurate report of the techniques and methods used to reach their final results.

This year, we are keeping everyone in suspense a little longer about the partner behind the challenge!

Which team will find the optimal route to maximize its profit? Join us to find out!

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