What did you find challenging about this year’s task?
One of the main things at the start was…
he task itself was reasonably clear at the start,
but when we looked at the data set
we had no idea what it was about,
what the individual variables meant…
especially the prices that we initially thought might be the key to the result…
…but they weren’t relevant at all.
Initially it was quite hard to get our heads around this.
How did you go about solving the task?
We were effectively a team of 11 students from the Humboldt University in Berlin.
The first thing we did was look at the task together and then split into teams.
One team, for example, was responsible for preparing the data,
one team then applied certain machine learning models
one team combined these models.
And these teams
they weren’t set in stone
there was always communication and exchange between the teams
and then some people also changed teams
but that was our basic structure, that everyone was responsible for one area.
What does this success mean to you?
This is a major achievement for us today.
We’re all fairly new to the area of data mining,
so it seems that we got the basics right and did everything right in this project.
What are you going to do with the prize money?
I have to admit,
we didn’t expect this.
So we haven’t really thought about it yet.
Dividing it between us is one option, of course.
Who knows, maybe we’ll come up with a good idea…
What are your plans for now?
First of all we’re going to enjoy our day here
and then of course enjoy the evening some more
on the lovely roof terrace at prudsys,
especially the good food.
Highly recommended.
Winning here has been a lot of fun!
