Stattricks

Hackathon for Statisticians

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AIM OF THE CONTEST:

The aim of this “Stat-Tricks” is to let your imagination guide you by pushing the boundaries of your statistical knowledge and skills to get a combination of imputation methods for building Time series prediction models.

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DESCRIPTION:

Recently, DoWell Research got a school principal as a client who, to check the General Knowledge of the school students, took a test everyday. The test was based on a particular topic/ domain each week, and he continued it for 15 weeks. He wanted to know about the behavioral and learning patterns of students. In this data, the names of the students have been replaced by numbers, where each row represents the marks scored by students out of 10. The data contains some missing values for days when a student was absent.

TASK:

A dataset of 750 to 1000 students would be given on a weekly basis. The provided data might contain missing values as the students had remained absent for that day. The task of the hackathon is to fill in the missing values using appropriate imputation methods without removing the observation and build a predictive model for predicting the marks of students for the next weeks.

This process continues for 15 weeks.

DETAILS OF THE HACKATHON

  • Location: Online (GitHub)
  • Duration:15 December,2020
  • Contact: DoWell Team Organizer
  • Email:

PARTICIPATION RULES OF HACKATHON

Eligibility Criteria

  • Age limit- Minimum 18 years
  • Communicative Language - English (Mandatory)
  • Software and Hardware- Stable internet connection with a working PC/Desktop is a must
  • Students / Job Seekers / non exclusive freelancers
  • Nationality- Any country (Law of Singapore shall be applicable to all the participants irrespective of their nationality.)
  • Participants have to sign a non disclosure agreement.
  • Team size - Minimum 2 members
  • Communicative Language - English (Mandatory)

Non Eligibility Criteria

  • Workers / employees / exclusive freelancers of any company
  • Employees, freelancers or interns from DoWell

REGISTRATION RULES TO HACKATHON

  • Last Day of Registration is Friday of each week for participating in the same week.
  • No payment required for registration and participation.
  • Participants wishing to sign up for the hackathon must complete the online Registration Form. All Participants in submitting their registration accept the event regulations and grant consent for the handling of their personal information by Dowell
  • Teams have to register weekly for the hackathon. The registration link will be open throughout the duration of hackathon.
  • Participants guarantee that the personal information provided upon registration is true and accurate, with no liability being attributed to DoWell in the event of any falsification and/or inaccuracy. Furthermore, inaccurate and/or falsified information can result in disqualification of the participant from the event.
  • Applications will be screened as per the criteria.
  • Participants need to have proper internet connection along with the needed hardware and software support.
  • Amendments in the team are allowed without violating the eligibility criteria.
  • Team leader have to register for the event.

JUDGMENT RULES FOR HACKATHON

  • This is a contributory hackathon.
  • A team’s contribution will be judged on the basis of their participation and quality of contribution.
  • The organizer’s judgement is final.
  • Refer the calculation template for more clarity on the judgement method.
  • A team can discontinue and join at any stage of the hackathon, weekly judgement will be done.
  • Prizes to be awarded weekly based on the performance of the team in each task and an overall performance prize at the end of hackathon.

REWARD FOR THE HACKATHON :-

  • The prize for the winning team every week will be 50_dollars.
  • The overall performance prize at the completion of the hackathon after 15 weeks will be 100 dollars____.
  • Participation certificates per participant in a team will be given at the end of the completion of the 15 weeks hackathon.
  • Participants shall acknowledge and agree that Dowell shall have no liability whatsoever on how the prizes will be split up between team members.
  • Winning certificates for winning teams

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Intellectual property rights, guarantees, release of responsibility and assignment of intellectual and moral rights, by participating in the Hackathon and accepting the Terms and Conditions, each Participant hereby:

  • Declares and warrants that the Product and Product Content is an original work and in no way violates, in whole or in part, the Intellectual or Property Rights of others and releases Dowell from any and all responsibility, liability, or request for compensation for damages that should be made by any third party;
  • Agrees with effect from creation and irrespective of payment to irrevocably transfer and fully assign: a) all Intellectual Property Rights together with all right, title, ownership and/or interest; and b) any and all Moral Rights in Product and Product Content to DoWell. No additional consideration shall be payable to you or any third party by DoWell in respect of such transfer of Intellectual Property Rights.
  • Agrees to reasonably assist Dowell in registering such rights of ownership and Intellectual Property Rights as required by law (e.g. filing of patents and other such registrations as appropriate); and;
  • Agrees to indemnify Dowell (its representatives, employees, assignees) and to hold it harmless against any loss, liability, damage or expense suffered or incurred as a result of breach of this clause.

Intellectual Property Rights shall include,without limitation,any ideas,concepts, know-how, data processing techniques, copyrights, patents, designs, inventions, trade secrets, software, source code and documentation, notes, memorandum and any other intellectual property rights attaching to Dowell and Dowell Content created, invented and/or developed by you and/or alongside other Participants pursuant to participation in Dowell Hackathon.

This repository is owned by DoWell and is under GPL V3.0 and Apache license.

CODE OF CONDUCT

By participating in any Dowell Hackathon event,you agree to abide by the following code of conduct.

  • Participants shall not violate any law, rules and regulation or third party rights.

  • By submitting an Entry, you warrant and represent: (a) that it is your (or your team’s) original work; (b) that it has not been previously published, sold or submitted in any other competition, promotion, or contest; (c) that it has not won previous awards; and (d) that it does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; (e) that if any participant or participating team found infringing or violating any laws, rules mentioned herein above, shall be held liable for the compensation and shall also be disqualified.

  • Participants must treat all other participants with the utmost respect. All the participants are requested to act kindly, behave professionally, and do not insult or put down other attendees. Remember that harassment and racist, sexist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for this event. If at any point you see a fellow hacker being harassed, please talk to the nearest hackathon organizer.

  • Participants must treat our sponsors, organizers, and judges with the utmost respect.
  • Failure to comply with the above-stated Rules and Code of Conduct may result in the participating team’s disqualification.

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Dowell may contact any of the participants at any point in time for more information and to discuss potential forms of collaboration.
  • At any time, at the sole and absolute discretion of Dowell, Dowell shall be entitled to disqualify a Participant and/or Team in the event of failure to meet relevant * eligibility criteria or any other violation or suspected violation of these Terms and Conditions.
  • These Terms and Conditions, together with any Hackathon registration forms, represent the participant’s entire agreement with Dowell with respect to the Hackathon. These terms cannot be modified or changed except with the written agreement of Dowell.
  • All terms and rules are subject to change at Dowell, event coordinators’ or judges’ discretion. Participants will be informed of such changes if deemed necessary.
  • Subject to the rights, these terms and conditions and its interpretation and operation are governed solely by Singapore Law. That those in the Singapore or Foreign Country, agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore tribunals and courts.