E-commerce Price Prediction: Weekend Hackathon #8
MachineHack is back with another exciting hackathon for this weekend. The 8th instalment of the popular weekend hackathon series, and this time we challenge data scientists to predict the price of products on an E-commerce platform in MachineHack’s E-commerce Price Prediction: Weekend Hackathon #8. The challenge will start on June 12th Friday at 6 pm IST. Click here to participate Problem Statement & Description E-commerce platforms have been in existence for more than 2 decades now. The popularity and its preference as a common choice for buying and selling essential products have grown rapidly and exponentially over the past few years. E-commerce has impacted the lifestyle of common people to a huge extent. Many such platforms are competing over each other for dominance by providing consumer goods at a competitive price. In this hackathon, we challenge data science enthusiasts to predict the price of commodities on an e-commerce platform. Given are 7 distinguishing factors that can influence the price of a product on an e-commerce platform. Your objective as a data scientist is to build a machine learning model that can accurately predict the price of a product based on the given factors. Data Description:- The unzipped folder will have the following files. Train.csv –  2452 observations.Test.csv –  1051 observations.Sample Submission – Sample format for the submission. Target Variable: Selling_Price The datasets will be made available for download on June 12th, Friday at 6 pm IST This hackathon and the bounty will expire on June 15th, Monday at 7 am IST Below are the file formats for the provided data Train.csv Test.csv Sample_Submission.xlsx Click here to participate Bounties The top 3 competitors will receive a cool AIM goodie bag and a free pass to the Rising 2020. Know more about the Rising 2020 here. Rules One account per participant. Submissions from multiple accounts will lead to disqualificationThe submission limit for the hackathon is 10 per day after which the submission will not be evaluatedAll registered participants are eligible to compete in the hackathonThis competition counts towards your overall ranking pointsYou will not be able to submit once you click the “Complete Hackathon” button. You may ignore this featureWe ask that you respect the spirit of the competition and do not cheatThis hackathon will expire on 15th June, Monday at 7 am IST Evaluation The leaderboard is evaluated using RMSLE for the participant’s submission. Click here to participate
MachineHack is back with another exciting hackathon for this weekend. The 8th instalment of the popular weekend hackathon series, and this time we challenge data scientists to predict the price of products on an E-commerce platform in MachineHack’s E-commerce Price Prediction: Weekend Hackathon #8. The challenge will start on June 12th Friday at 6 pm […]
Predict the price of products on an E-commerce platform in MachineHack's E-commerce Price Prediction: Weekend Hackathon #8.
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