International Data Analysis Olympiad IDAO Created by the leading Data Science specialists for their future colleagues: students, current employees, young researchers. It became the first International Data Analysis Olympiad in Russia. IDAO 2019 Online Round – January-February 2019 2500 participants from all over the world; On-site Final – April 2019 100 best participants based on the Online Round Maximum size of a team – 3 people 36 hours of competition Lectures of the leading scientists Presentations of the partner companies Language – English

Aims Gather the best representatives of the Machine Learning community Combine approaches of Kaggle and ACM ICPC – efficiency is equally important as quality Offer tasks that will help to create models applicable in the real life

36 teams in the Final 7 countries IDAO - 2018 The Faculty of Computer Science together with partners organized the first International Data Analysis Olympiad in Russia. The Online Round was conducted on January 15-December 11, 2018. The On-Site Final was held in Moscow on April 2 –3. 36 teams in the Final 7 countries 902 teams registered for the Online Round

Foreign teams in the Final 2018 Belarus 8 participants 3 teams Azerbaijan 4 participants 1 team India 6 participants 2 teams Ukraine 2 participants 1 team Peru 1 participant 1 team Israel 2 participants 1 team

Statistics 2018

Winners 2018 1 place – the Magic City team, St. Petersburg State University, Russia 2 place – the Santiago Seaman team, Ukraine 3 place – the Apex team, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus

Statistics 2018 13 Russian universities Higher School of Economics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Moscow State University; RUDN University; Bauman Moscow State Technical University; Saint Petersburg State University; ITMO; Innopolis University; Skoltech; Novosibirsk State University; Saint Petersburg Academic University; Ural Federal University; National Research University of Electronic Technology 6 foreign universities Birla Institute of Technology (India); Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland); ADA University (Azerbaijan); Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India); Belarusian state university (Belarus); Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus). 5 Russian cities Moscow Novosibirsk Saint Petersburg Innopolis Ekaterinburg

Partners IDAO – 2018 ORGANISERS GENERAL SPONSOR PARTNERS

Online Round – the task provided by Yandex On-Site Final – the task provided by Sberbank about optimizing the cash supply for Sberbank ATMs Andrey Chertok, Managing Director for R&D in DS, ML and AI at Sberbank, рассказал о задаче: “The bank’s losses due to excessive money just ‘lying around’ in ATMs amounts to billions of roubles annually. Our team uses data analysis more and more frequently to solve such problems. For example, the problem with cash delivery optimization and forecasting the amount of money to be cashed from a specific ATM was successfully solved with machine learning methods. We proposed a mini version of what we’ve done at Sberbank to the Olympiad participants.’ The finalists worked with real data of Sberbank ATMs’ locations and loading.»

“Data Science is becoming one of the most important domains of human knowledge. Our civilisation is at the point when we are able collect and store large amounts of data but still do not fully realise what we can do with them. There is a clear need in professionals in data science and machine learning and this need will only grow in next years. Such olympiads are excellent ways to encourage more gifted young people to become data scientists. The more data scientists we will have, the faster we will move towards AI and the creation of new post-industrial future for humanity.” Dmitry Vetrov Chairman of Judging Commission, Research professor in HSE, Head of Bayesian methods research group

Judges IDAO 2018

Judges IDAO 2018