Mannheim Students Score Second Place at Data Mining Cup

The Data Mining Cup is an annual data mining competition for students from all over the world. Since 2014, students from Mannheim take part in the competition as an integral part of the Data Mining 2 lecture, held by Prof. Paulheim. In the course of the competition, the students have to solve a data mining task based on real e-commerce data.

This year, the data was provided by an online sports apparel retailer, and the task was to predict the sellout date for individual articles. Students had six weeks time to develop their solution. In the course of the lecture, they worked in different teams and had regular discussions about solution approaches and results.

One of the student teams from Mannheim qualified for the final round of the 10 best teams in May and was invited to present their solution Berlin at the prudsys personalization & pricing summit. In the final ranking, they scored second out of 197 solutions in total. Overall, teams from 148 universities from 47 countries took part in the 2018 data mining cup.

The DWS group wants to congratulate the winning team:

  • Nele Ecker
  • Thilo Habrich
  • Andreea Iana
  • Adrian Kochsiek
  • Alexander Luetke
  • Laurien Theresa Lummer
  • Nils Richter
  • Fabian Oliver Schmitt

Picture: Members of the winnig team in Berlin. Left to right: Nele Ecker, Laurien Lummer, Adrian Kochsiek, Alexander Lütke

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