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DATA MINING CUP has received a high international response again
With more than 600 registered participants and 231 handed in results, the ninth edition of the worldwide leading students competition for intelligent data analysis finished on May 15, 2008. In scope of the DATA MINING CUP competition 2008 large number of students were searching for a Data Mining model, which allows to predict how long a lottery participant will participate in a class lottery.

Chemnitz, 5-20-2008
prudsys AG, the organizer of the annual DATA MINING CUP (DMC) competition, was again calling on students both in Germany and abroad to participate in the DATA MINING CUP 2008, challenging them to test their Data Mining knowledge based on a practical analysis problem.

Not least because of the high practical nature of the task the DATA MINING CUP has become the world’s leading student competition in the area of intelligent data analysis. At many universities and technical colleges it has become a fixed element in the syllabus.

To guarantee that the ninth edition of the DMC competition is also highly relevant to practical situations, this year Günther Direct Services (GDS) was partnering with prudsys AG. The Günther Direct Services GmbH acts as a service provider for the state accredited lottery agent Günther in all direct marketing matters. GDS delivered the anonymized data and the subject expertise for this year’s competition problem.

This year’s DMC competition problem consisted of predicting, at the beginning of a lottery, how long a participant will participate.

Until May 15, 2008 the competition participants had to submit a valid Data Mining model. As in the past, the best student participants can look forward to attractive prizes again this year, including taking part in KDD 2008 (August 24 – 27, 2008 in Las Vegas, USA).

With more than 600 registered participants of 164 universities from 42 countries and 231 handed in results the this years DMC competition got the second best figures in his own history.

The results of the competition will be revealed at the DATA MINING CUP User Days, which will take place on June 4/5, 2008 in Leipzig, Germany. This two-day conference explores topics such as Data Mining and real time analytics. Among the leading Data Mining conferences in Europe, it offers an annual platform for communication and exchange among users and Data Mining experts. Well known companies like Quelle, Lufthansa World Shop and Siemens too, will tell about their experiences in Data Mining projects.
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