We are launching the Data Science Championship for the third time with the AI Community of experts and teams on artificial intelligence. This year the competition will be held entirely online, and the prize fund will be 1 million rubles.
The main thing about the championship:
- We start on November 21, collect applications until December 13, announce the winners on December 19
- You can solve cases individually or with a team
- Everyone can apply (in general, everyone, regardless of experience and place of residence), with the exception of our current employees, alas
- The prize fund is 1,000,000 rubles, and the best participants can get internships and vacancies.
Read more about the tasks for 2020 - under the cut.
Moving on to tasks
Sibur Challenge 2020 participants will not work with game tasks, but with real business cases and company data.
Task 1 (about production): Raw materials
A broad fraction of light hydrocarbons (or NGLs) is a raw material that is piped from gas processing plants to SIBUR's production facilities. At pumping stations located along the pipeline, additional raw materials are supplied - that is, the composition of NGLs supplied to the consumer changes over time.
The task is to create a forecast of the composition of the incoming NGL. This will enable SIBUR to optimize its technological processes and reduce costs.
Task 2 (about business): Sales
SIBUR's sales managers work with a huge number of potential clients. At the same time, company names can be indicated in different ways, for example, with abbreviations or in different languages. This complicates the work of finding new customers: duplicates have to be determined manually.
Participants will use machine learning and open source to determine if the names are from the same company.
A little more about the tasks, as well as the introductory speech of our chief mentor - Alexey Vinnichenko, head of the analytics center at SIBUR Digital, - in a video invitation .
How everything will go
We will solve problems from November 21 to December 13. All stages of the competition will be held online - on a special platform where your solutions will be stored in the cloud.
Last year we tried (and it turned out well) communication via telegram - this year we have a channel and a private chat. All the news of the championship, information about the points awarded - will be there.
And most importantly, you can register using the link (you can already).
Good luck!