ABOUT ROUND 2:

Round 2 deadline has now been shifted to 2nd January 2022.
In this round, you are required to refine your model and prepare a brief presenation on it.
Your model would be judged on how original, effective and scalable your approach is.
Your team would also be assigned mentors from Tata Communications data science teams to act as a sounding board.
The mentors would not provide any further context to the project and only help in refining the approach or presentation.
Evaluation would be based on 60% model performance and 40% on the scores of the Judges Panel.
The submissions must be completed by 2nd January, 2022. Post that and the presentation submission deadline you will be assigned a slot for presentation to the Judges Panel. Evaluation criteria for this would be shared at a later stage.
Note: The smaller the score of the evaluation metric (MAPE score) the better is the model's ability to predict future observations. The ideal score is to have something closer to 0. That being said, please note that having all the future predictions as 0 will lead to an evaluation metric score of 0, hence, we request you to submit only true predictions of your model and not random entries. All the top notebook submissions will be validated by experts at Tata Communications, should there be any anomalies they will be disqualified from the challenge.
You must upload your notebooks for final review and validation. Ensure your code reproduces the same results every time it is run and you must be able to display this as and when asked to present.

ABOUT THE CHALLENGE:

This challenge is organized by IIT Bombay as a part of their Techfest. In order to be eligible for the challenge, please ensure:

you are a school, undergraduate or a post-graduate student
and have registered as a team of (min 1 and max 4 students) on techfest's website: https://techfest.org/competitions/datathon

REGISTRATION | TEAM CREATION & SUBMISSION:

In order to make submissions, please follow the below instructions

Register for the challenge, and create your team here. Only one person from a team must create a team and your team name must be the Techfest team ID.
Once you create the team, you can invite the rest of your team members.
You will be able to see a submit button where you submit your prediction files and notebooks.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Tata Communication portfolios are mapped to fast-track Digital Transformation Journey across Cloud and Data Centre, Business Collaboration, Managed Security, Network, Mobility, Voice and Media.

In this challenge, participants are expected to build a projection of the business potential for each of the 3915 regions (given in the dataset) for the next 12 months.

ABOUT DATASET:

There are a total of 3915 regions in the dataset
Train Dataset - Has the business potential of 3915 regions for months 1 to 72
Evaluation Dataset - You must predict the business potential of 3915 regions for Month 73 to Month 87

EVALUATION:

Submissions are evaluated using a custom evaluation metric that uses Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) value. You can find the code here.

How do we do it?

We give participants two sets of data:
- Training Dataset: It contains both independent and dependent variables. Anyone can download it, build a model and make a submission.
- Evaluation Dataset: It contains only independent variables (the dependent variables are hidden). You submit the prediction values of the dependent variables for this dataset and we compare it against the actual values.

LEADERBOARD:

This challenge does partial evaluation.
The initial leaderboard (i.e. public) is calculated with data of ‘Jan 2020 to Aug 2020’ (Month 73 to 80 i.e. 8 Months)
The final results (i.e. private) will be calculated with the data of ‘Sep 2020 to March 2021’ (Month 81 to 87 i.e. 7 Months)
So, please note that your results can vary in public and private leaderboards.
Also, the private leaderboard will be visible after the challenge ends and it's standings will be considered for round 2 selections.
All the participants must submit their notebooks/code and the final leaderboard will be released after looking into the code.

Round 2: IIT Bombay Techfest - Tata Communications Datathon

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