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DigiCow Farmer Training Adoption Challenge

Helping Kenya
€8 250 EUR
Completed (4 months ago)
Data analysis
Classification
901 joined
377 active
Starti
Jan 28, 26
Closei
Mar 01, 26
Reveali
Mar 02, 26
Hilarious LB score
2 Mar 2026, 03:35 · 3

Did not think my best public LB (~0.961) will be my worst private LB(~0.862 @ rank 332) and my second best public LB(~0.957) would be my best private LB(~0.948 @ rank 37). Kinda hilarious honestly.

Nice challenge though (ignoring the annoying data changes and all)

Discussion 3 answers
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MICADEE
LAHASCOM (Freelance)

@Ches_Charlemagne Lol… honestly, it’s been very tiring. The constant back-and-forth—having to update the datasets not once but twice—has become a recurring issue on Zindi lately. Despite the enormous effort required to repeatedly start over because of these changes, only a non-Kenyan participant who placed first will be eligible for a financial reward. That feels discouraging, considering the time and energy everyone invested. @Zindi can definitely do better on this; it’s quite exhausting, I must say.

Shalom !!!

2 Mar 2026, 06:48
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Participating in competitions are generally frustrating, but yeah, this is the first time I've been in a competiton where data changed multiple times mid-challenge without any reasonable extension of the deadline. This is also the first Zindi competition I have had the time to take seriously.

If data changes mid-challenge is a recurring problem on this platform, then @Zindi competition organizers could learn a thing or two from kaggle (and other platform) competition organizers.

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MICADEE
LAHASCOM (Freelance)

@Ches_Charlemagne Well said—keep up the great work. For a first-time competition on Zindi, you did an excellent job. Well done, and welcome onboard!