Night between June 16th and 17th 2024
Stats under the stars
University of Salento - Department of Human and Social Sciences
An hackathon to solve a real-world problem during one night
Stats Under the Stars (SUS) is a hackathon for young Data Scientists, MSc and PhD students, where the teams have a full night to compete in the analysis of a real-world analytics problem. This year, SUS7 (June 16th and 17th 2024) is organized by the University of Salento - Department of Human and Social Sciences in collaboration with Young SIS (y-SIS, https://youngsis.github.io/).
It is a satellite event of the SIS2024 conference (Bari, June 17th -20th 2024).
The event is endorsed by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) and is sponsored by: Adecco.
SUS7 is the seventh edition of the event Stats Under the Stars. For information regarding the past editions, you can have a look at
SUS1 University of Padova (http://sus.stat.unipd.it/)
SUS2 University of Salerno (https://www.unipa.it/STATS-UNDER-THE-STARS-2/)
SUS3 University of Firenze (https://local.disia.unifi.it/sus3/)
SUS4 University of Palermo (https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/seas/sus4/)
SUS5 Bocconi University (https://www.sus5.unibocconi.eu/)
SUS6 Università Politecnica Marche (https://dises.univpm.it/)
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).
This year, the main-sponsor Adecco is promoting the challenge.
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.
Which team, and how, will maximize its profit? Join us if you want to find out!
Registration is closed due to reaching full capacity.
All team members must own a University/Institutional e-mail address certifying their student status.
The team-leader must enroll the team using his/her own institutional e-mail address when compiling the registration form. He/She must also enter the institutional e-mail addresses of all team members in a specific section of the form.
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