RMB CPI Nowcasting Challenge
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Helping South Africa
$17 000 USD
Completed (over 2 years ago)
Forecast
1277 joined
21 active
Start
Sep 01, 23
Close
Dec 12, 23
Reveal
Dec 14, 23
Second Place Model Notes
Notebooks · 17 Dec 2023, 09:12 · 5
Hello all,
Firstly, a massive thank you to the team at Zindi for hosting such a smoothly run competition and to RMB for their generous sponsorship!
In the interest of knowledge sharing and learning, I have jotted down some thoughts around key decisions I made in developing my CPI nowcasting model. Please feel free to reach out if you have any thoughts or questions.
Cheers,
Arno
p.s. I would be very interested in seeing some of Tom and Ihar's notes on their approaches given how close the leaderboard was over the three months!
Congratulations!! And thank you for sharing your appraoch
Thank you for sharing @Arno.
Good Job @Arno! Your solution was able to tame the beast- Transport😈. Petrol prices definetely helped smooth out your predictions on this particular sub-category.
This was one volatile sub-category that played picky-picky-ponki kind of game to most of us especially in September setting the top 3 apart for the rest of the period.
Thanks.
my approach can be found here: https://github.com/eaggy/zindi/tree/RMB-CPI-Nowcasting-Challenge/RMB_CPI_nowcasting_challenge