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We are pleased to announce that the registration for the annual International Data Analysis Olympiad (IDAO 2021), organized by HSE University (Russia), is open now.
The Olympiad will be convened by leading experts in data analysis and aims to bring together analysts, scientists, professionals, and junior researchers. Participation is free. Winners and prize-winners of IDAO 2021 will receive valuable prizes.
The registration is open till March 12, 2021.
The Olympiad includes two stages:
Online Stage (March 1-31):
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Track 1: Traditional machine learning competition on Yandex. Contest platform. Participants will need to make new predictions and upload them to the automatic verification system.
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Track 2: Come up with a solution for the same problem, keeping within a rigid framework of time and memory used.
Final (April 17-18):
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Top 30 teams according to the Online Stage results will be invited to the Online final.
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In the final 36 hours of the competition, participants will try not just to train the model, but to create a full-fledged prototype, which will be tested both in terms of accuracy and performance.
More information about the event is available on https://idao.world/