Deadline: June 25, 2017 | Apply here
Eligibility: The challenge is open to all students of European universities, you can participate in a team of 1-3 people
Prize: Cash prize of 5000 Euros
MEC Data Challenge 2017
Want to take part in one of the most amazing Data Challenges of those last years? You can even be rewarded for your involvement!
From a dataset, available on Kaggle in class, you will have to identify users with different IP addresses and devices, profile the user’s behaviour in general and make a timing profile 24/7 of the users. This means that you will need to determine at which moment of the day and of the week, the users adopt a specific behaviour.
Evaluation based on the ability for the students’ algorithms to:
- Identify the end-user behind multi-devices used
- Clustering users through categories (ages, occupation, etc)
- Temporal behavior profiling 24/7
The evaluation principles will be validated by professors and professional data scientists.
A Student Challenge
Make the engine of tomorrow!
The MEC Data Challenge is a cutting-edge competition for enthusiastic scientist students who want to showcase their analytic and technical skills. The participating students work in team (2-3 students) and have to develop algorithm for processing the significant cumulative big data from media sector.
Multi-University Challenge
A multilingual and international challenge
MEC Data Challenge is an open competition where students from VUB, ULB, UGent, University College of London, and others participate. It is an exciting opportunity for students to be confronted to other students from different culture and challenge each other.
Make the engine of tomorrow
The students have to work on professional issues by developing an algorithm which can identify users through all their devices, profiling their general behavior and temporal behavior.
In other words, create a new engine which will define the advertisement strategy of the future. An inspiring objective which impacts foremost business and the means to communicate with clients.
Data Crawler
The solution to collect data on volunteer population
The quality and the traceability of data are two of the main concerns about MEC Data Challenge. For ensuring students to have the best data, Dataa has developed its own solution, Data Crawler, to guarantee the best quality and traceability of the data, and ensure to students the fairest evaluation.
Participate in data collection and follow MEC Data Challenge, the cutting-edge competition, which will revolutionize the media sector and our life!
Three Rewards for the three best teams!
To reward the best projects, a cash prize of 5000 Euros will be offered by MEC and is divided into three rewards. To evaluate the submitted algorithm, data scientists from Dataa team will use scientific methods.
The evaluation principles will be validated with the Steering Committee composed of teacher and professional data scientists.
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