Dear all,

Winners for this challenge will be judged a bit differently.

The client is interested in clean code and interesting ideas. To accommodate this, we will be reviewing the top 10 solutions on the leaderboard.

After code review, if you are in the top 5 on the leaderboard you will be requested to prepare a video to share with the host along with your code. Winners will be paired with a mentor to help prepare your code along with a 10-minute video presentation.

In the video you submit, you need to explain your approach to the problem as clearly as possible, including any relevant insights into the problem you discovered along the way (e.g. a clever way to engineer the raw features).

Furthermore, you need to briefly provide a realistic, simple deployment strategy for your model (creativity and brevity is the goal here, as 10 minutes is not enough time to get into detail).

You will be judged on:

• The clarity of your pitch (how easy is it to understand your solution to the problem) (25%)
• The insights you obtained from tackling the problem (25%)
• How implementable is your code in a real application? How much time and processing power does it take to train, how many models have you ensembled, have you taken into account model efficiency? (25%)
• Novel ideas (15%)
• Code that is clean, easy to read and easy to work with (10%)

Final placements will be awarded by the host, based on the above criteria.

We wish you luck for this challenge and look forward to seeing the winners final presentations.