Data -MIning- Cup

Each year national and international educational institutions from over 20 countries take part in the DATA-MINING-CUP (DMC) competition.

With this student competition that takes place in spring each year, prudsys AG, one of the leading data mining companies, wants to enthuse domestic and international students for intelligent data analysis (data mining) and challenge them to find the best solution to a data mining problem in competition with others. 
The DMC is a team competition. 

• Student competition

Domestic and international students are entitled to take part in the DMC competition in teams. Interested parties who are not students may not take part.

•  Maximum number of teams

A maximum of two teams are permitted from each educational institution (university, technical university, vocational university etc.). There is no restriction on the size of the team.

• Team leader

Each person who registers a team automatically becomes the team leader. Each team leader must be a student enrolled at an educational institution at the time of the competition. It must be possible to clearly assign the team leader to an educational institution. The team leader then sets up the team and is responsible for compliance with the participation conditions.

The team leader submits the team’s entry and if awarded a prize receives it on behalf of the team.

A person can only act as the team leader for one team.

•  Team members

All team members must be registered as students at the educational institution where they start the team at the time of the competition. There is no restriction on the size of the team. A team may consist of just one person (refer to Section 3.3). Individual team members do not need to register separately.

Important dates for DATA MINING CUP 2014

start of registration: March 3, 2014

start of competition and announcement task: April 2, 2014

end of competition and closing date: May 14, 2014

prudsys User Days (Berlin, Germany) and award ceremony: July 2-3, 2014

The reward 

The best teams will get attractive prizes: 

1st place:  EUR 2,000.00
2nd place: EUR 1,000.00
3rd place:  EUR    500.00

prudsys will announce the the best up-and-coming data miners during its User Days on July 2, 2014 (Berlin/Germany). The best teams will receive an invitation in advance and will present their suggested solution in a short presentation slot.