DATA MINING CUP 2021: Students from the University of Geneva Take the Gold

23 Sep 2021

We are glad to announce that Léo Nicollier who was a Mathscope teaching assistant and Juraj Rosinsky ex- Athena participant are amongst this year’s winners of the DATA MINING CUP (DMC).

"The participating teams at DMC 2021 developed a recommendation model for an online bookstore.

The winners are the students from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. With their recommendation solution for an online bookstore, the four-member team beat out 115 teams from 28 countries that took part in the competition.

Students had eleven weeks to submit a solution. The task was to develop a mathematical model for calculating relevant book recommendations. The participating teams created a recommendation model based on historical transactions and item characteristics. For any given book title, the model had to return the top five recommendations."

Text: data-mining-cup.com website

Watch the video of the 2021 DMC award ceremony

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