Congratulations to our winners and to all Zindians who participated in this difficult challenge!

The leaderboard has been sealed, and points distributed. Make sure to find yourself on the leaderboard to download and share your certificate of participation.

During code review, we disqualified and suspended four users for contravening Zindi rules. Specifically, we either could not replicate their scores in a valid way, or their solutions were not useful to the client. This is a result of these users improving their score using methods that are not applicable to real-world machine learning solutions. This leads to outcomes that are not useful to our client, as well as giving these users an unfair advantage against the rest of the competitors.

As you know, Zindi is a community dedicated to growing data science talent and opportunities in Africa, and delivering quality solutions to real challenges. Each of you is a valued and important member of this community, but we will not tolerate behaviour that compromises the quality of our services to clients, contradicts our values, or goes against the spirit of community and fairness at the heart of Zindi. We are dedicated to preserving the integrity of the platform, and we trust that you support us on this mission as well.

Best regards,

The Zindi team