yangxin666 / hackathon-summer-2021

UR Data Science Prediction Challenge Summer 2021

University of Rochester Biomedical Data Science Hackathon Summer 2021

• The training and test data will be posted to this repository at noon EDT 17-August-2021.
• Each team must have a github handle associated with it in order to participate. Make sure you edit your registration or email the organizers to provide this, if you haven't yet.

Logistics

1. You may add team members up to noon EDT on 8/19 by editing your response to the google form or emailing the organizers.
2. Teams of entirely undergraduates will be in the undergraduate division, else they will be in the open division.
3. Predictions on test data set are submitted by pushing to github. A repository with the name Hackathon-Summer-2021, owned by the team captain, will be queried for a file named prediction/prediction.csv. If the team captain forks this repository and writes predictions there everything should work (as long as the predictions are formatted correctly).
4. Predictions will be scored at least once daily, starting 8/18, with scores posted by noon. At the organizers' option, predictions may be scored more frequently than this.
5. General questions/problems can be directed to issues page. We encourage other hackathon participants to respond to issues.
6. The scoreboard will be located here, and will be updated starting noon on 8/18. We cannot provide support beyond the diagnostic output included on the scoreboard if an error is encountered in scoring your predictions.
7. Interim scoring may employ forms of randomization (e.g. bootstrapping) from the test data set. The final scores will use all the data and not be randomized.
8. Competition runs through 11:59 PM EDT 22-August-2021. The predictions each team has committed to their repository at that time will be used to determine their final score.

Data Description

The data are unnormalized counts of various genes from RNASeq performed on various patients. The goal is to predict the patient's age at sampling from their RNAseq profile.

Prizes

1. First place in each division: $300 + $75*(team size)
2. Second place in each division: 0 + $50*(team size)
3. Predictions will be scored based on mean square error, lower values are better.
4. In order to claim your prize, you will need to fill out a post-competition survey.

In addition, winning teams will have the opportunity to present their solutions at a meeting of participants and faculty this fall.