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Absa Corporate Client Activity Forecasting Challenge

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incorrect data...?
Data Ā· 2 Nov 2022, 12:28 Ā· 8

correct me if i'm wrong.

although the decription explains data as following

'The training set is the first six weeks of data, and the seventh and final week will be the test set,'

however test data set only includes 1 day '2021-03-24'. also training includes 7 weeks.

what's the reason behind this situation?

also another question.

why does test dataset only include time point hour '00', '06', '12', '18'?

what happens if test users take actions 05:00:00?

also, where can I find evaluation methods?

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sorry I am a complete beginner.

any replies are appreciated.

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ZINDI

Hello, the text has been updated. Thank you for the good catch!

There are 4 200 customers, across five countries over a period of seven weeks. The training set is the first 7 weeks of data, and the last day and final week will be the test set, where the target is whether a client performed event 14 during that day at 6-hour intervals.

The evaluation metric for this challenge is F1.

I hope this clears up the confusion and good luck!

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SbusisoPhakathi

Thanks so much

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i see, thanks for your reply.

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ok, so our time-series prediction models will be evaluated on activities happened in only '1 DAY'

hmmm,

any reasons why you chose this evaluation strategy?

In my understanding, evaluation period should be more than at least 7 days...

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by the way,

what does 'the last day and final week will be the test set' mean...?

are you going to add extra 1 week to current test file?

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skaak

Hmmmmm, this changes the competition completely. Until before this explanation, we had to predict the transactions, now we have to predict if a given transaction took place.

@zindi so the submission file target column, is that now a 0 or 1 based on if this specific transaction took place?

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skaak

Thanks amy - well, if you wanted to up the ante, you did just that.

Reminds me of the story of the princess who demanded her prince pick a flower from the highest mountain. Next to impossible ... but he was so noble and committed he attempted it anyhow, even if it cost him his life.

Tell ABSA we are noble and committed to this impossible task, but perhaps not to the point of death.

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