Abstracts and Slides on Contest Page

I have posted the abstracts of the winners and the slides that I presented at INFORMS on the competition homepage. If you want your abstract on there, please sent me an email at perlich@us.ibm.com.

The results have been posted! Congrats to the winners!

Thank you all for your hard work! Congratulations to the winner and the runners up.

Hope to see some of you at INFORMS. We will have a recognition session on Saturday 4-5PM during the Data Mining Workshop and presentations of the work on Tuesday.
I am currently trying to finalize the talks.

Claudia

SUBMISSION is finally on.

Hi Folk,

sorry for the long delay, I was fighting some technical issues. So please submit via email, the instructions are now up on the site.

Thanks!

Claudia

The Living Dead

A few of you have pointed out, that there seem to be a few 'living dead' that are in hopsitals AFTER they (supposedly) died.

There are a few legitimate scenarios where this can happen (overlapping hospital stays) and there are a few that are clearly wrong.
So it may be a data error/honest mistake or the more sinister scenario: insurance fraud.

As it is: there is nothing I can do about it. You will have to deal with this.

Claudia

Group Members

I will ask you to identify your team members when you make your submission.

Questions about the organization

There will be no leaderboard. While they may make it more exciting, I think they do more harm then good since I have seen many people overfitting the 'leaderbord' set.

Questions about the submission

Instructions will be posted here and on the competition website in the next weeks.