results from another datamining competition

 FICO, UCSD Announce Winners of International Predictive Analytics Competition - MarketWatch http://goo.gl/yGIQT


The competition  asked participants to predict future purchases for consumers.


The competition was divided into two categories -- one category utilized raw data, and one category utilized transformed data -- and each category had a Graduate and Undergraduate division. The top three finishers in each category and each division shared $10,000 in cash prizes. The winners were:

Undergraduate Division - Raw Data Category
1st place         Shivam Juneja, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhaddal
                  (India)
2nd place         Benjamin Hamner, Duke University (USA)
3rd place         Rohan Anil, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
                  (India)
Undergraduate Division - Transformed Data Category
1st place         Benjamin Hamner, Duke University (USA)
2nd place         Harsh Pareek, Chiraag Juvekar and Santosh Ananthakrishnan; Indian
                  Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)
3rd place         Rohan Anil, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
                  (India)
Graduate Division - Raw Data Category
1st place         Quan Sun, University of Waikato (New Zealand)
2nd place         Alexey Gorodilov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
                  (Russia)
3rd place         Jianfei Wu, North Dakota State University (USA)
Graduate Division - Transformed Data Category
1st place         Santi Villalba, University College Dublin (Ireland)
2nd place         Jaeyong Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
3rd place         Ilhwan Ko, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)

--datamining_guy