1. 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

2. 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

3. 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, 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

4. 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

5. Statistics 2018

6. 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

7. 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

8. Partners IDAO – 2018
ORGANISERS
GENERAL SPONSOR
PARTNERS

9. 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.»

10. “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

11. Judges IDAO 2018

12. Judges IDAO 2018