One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on...
The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It's very simple to register and to enter. The challenge is to predict when supermarket shoppers will next visit a store and how much they will spend. You're provided with a set of modelling data, and a test data set. You can enter the competition as many times as you like, there's a leaderboard that shows the score (percentage of correctly forecast visits) you need to beat, and you get immediate feedback on how well you've done.
I don't have any modelling skills but I gave it a go. I scored 8.4, placing me in 90th position. The current leader has managed to score 17.5. Can you top that?...
