Here, you find current news and hints to the Data Mining Cup 2004.
Therefore, please look at this page from time to time - in particular if
you will take part in the contest.
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News
Following the motto "Users inform Users" over 200 participants from the university sector and business have met at the Fifth DATA MINING CUP User Event Days in Chemnitz (June 22-24, 2004).
Three components have made this year's DMC User Event Days truely unique and characterized the leading Data Mining User Conference of German-speaking countries:
- high quality and number of speakers
- selection of the lectures specialized in branches and
- many possibilities to communicate directly between all participants
In 11 sessions within all 32 topics the conference visitor was told about best practice solutions of well-known enterprises and the experiences and efforts which they have made in using Data Mining and Analytical CRM.
A review of the conference program of the DMC User Event Days 2004 you find here.
Worldwide participation in the this year´s DATA-MINING-CUP Contest
The on May 13, 2004 outrunning 5th DATA-MINING-CUP Contest registers also in this year a worldwide interest.
Students of national and international universities, advanced technical colleges as well as universities of cooperative education
have been called up for finding a solution of a data analysis problem.
The this year´s task from the mail-order industry dealt with the question to prognosticate the retouring behaviour
of mail-order customers.
425 participants of 166 universities 32 countries are registrated and have sent in their solution model till May 13, 2004.
Within the scope of the DATA-MINING-CUP UserEventDays 2004 (June 22-24, 2004) the winner of the contest will be announced.
The first prize is a participation in the international Data-Mining-Conference "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining" (KDD 2004)
which will take place from August 22-25, 2004 in Seattle, USA. |
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