To be eligible for this competition you must register for this competition on Zindi. You must upload your submission to the competition leaderboard. Note that there will be no scores on this leaderboard. This challenge is open to everyone.

At the end of the competition, the judging panel will score all submissions according to the evaluation criteria. The panel’s determination is final.

Our intention is that the datasets are kept free and open for public use under a Creative Commons license 4.0 or similar. Data already licensed under more restrictive terms will not be eligible.

If your dataset wins, by accepting the prize, you thereby agree to making the dataset publicly available under a Creative Commons license 4.0 or similar and allow Zindi to use the dataset for a future challenge. All other datasets that did not win will similarly be encouraged to share their datasets as a public good.

If two data sets are identical, the tie breaker will be the date and time in which the submission was made (the earlier solution will win).

Maximum number of submissions per day is 4.

Teams and collaboration

You may participate in competitions as an individual or in a team of up to four people. When creating a team, the team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowable submissions as of the formation date. A team will be allowed the maximum number of submissions for the competition, minus the total number of submissions among team members at team formation. Prizes are transferred only to the individual players or to the team leader.

Multiple accounts per user are not permitted, and neither is collaboration or membership across multiple teams. Individuals and their submissions originating from multiple accounts will be immediately disqualified from the platform.

Code and datasets must not be shared privately outside of a team. Any code or datasets that are shared, must be made available to all competition participants through the platform. (i.e. on the discussion boards).

The Zindi user who sets up a team is the default Team Leader. The Team Leader can invite other data scientists to their team. Invited data scientists can accept or reject invitations. Until a second data scientist accepts an invitation to join a team, the data scientist who initiated a team remains an individual on the leaderboard. No additional members may be added to teams within the final 5 days of the competition or the last hour of a hackathon, unless otherwise stated in the competition rules

A team can be disbanded if it has not yet made a submission. Once a submission is made individual members cannot leave the team.

All members in the team receive points associated with their ranking in the competition and there is no split or division of the points between team members.

You acknowledge and agree that Zindi may, without any obligation to do so, remove or disqualify an individual, team, or account if Zindi believes that such individual, team, or account is in violation of Zindi’s Rules.

We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time as necessary.