Hey Zindians:Just open-sourced our 2nd place solution to the Farm to Feed Shopping Basket Challenge! 🥈🌾Code is documented, reproducible, and ready to fork. St... See more

Congratulations to the winners! Sharing your solutions would be greatly appreciated and would go a long way. Thank you.

Hi everyone! 👋The results are in, and we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Farm to Feed Shopping Basket Recommendation Challenge! 🎉 A huge congratul... See more

Hi @meganomaly, @AJoel, In the competition description, it says the second prize will be awarded to the best-performing female participant. Based on the current... See more

HelloSo, i made a submission on 19/01/2026 around 9pm. It took long to score, exceeding thw deadline. Won't that submission be accounted?

Please can it be extended one more day was having technical chgallenges

It is very frustrating mine has been scoring for over 2hrs now how are we supposed to know what were doing is right

This scoring is so frustrating there is only one day to go so whatsup with the scoring

do you find customer_id feature useful and helps in obtaining good correlation between CV and LB ?

I tried to ensemble n models that achieved a decent AUC score on CV (> 0.96), but the ensemble severely overfit on the LB(CV~ 0.94). This happened even thoug... See more

Hi @Zindi team,Now that the leaderboard scoring is running efficiently, could you please increase the daily submission limit to 10 for the competition? This wou... See more

Am I the only one suffering from this? I have a sub that is still being processed even after nearly 30 minutes

Hi, I am doing some EDA on the Train data set, and it looks like qty_this_week is all 0s? What does this mean, and am I doing something wrong?

I am sharing a multi-horizon modeling notebook that focuses on the core solution. To keep it concise, the EDA and evaluation sections were reduced.Notebook link... See more

Hi, I would like to take part in the competition. I understand that even if my solution by any chance turns out to be the best, I cannot win the prize, but can... See more

Farm to Feed Shopping Basket Recommendation Challenge i completd it

Hi @Joel, how was the public and private test set split, was is it based on time or it was just a random split.The rules dont mention howPublic-Private Split: Z... See more

How come in the train data we have customers buying say 0.5 , 0.2 , 0.3 , 0.4 of a particular product. These values aren't intuitive for the 'qty_this_week' col... See more

Understanding the Public Leaderboard Score The public leaderboard score is calculated as the simple average of four normalised metrics. Each metric contributes... See more

Dear all,The customer category mismatch has been resolved, and the updated file has now been uploaded. Please note that this file is not strictly required, as a... See more

Does anyone know how mae scores are normalised. @Joel if possible could you share the xmin and xmax values used for normalizing the mae metric.I dont understand... See more

@AJoel and fellow scientists,I’d like to clarify a point from the data section, which states: “Any use of manually selected threshold (e.g., setting a fixed cut... See more

We are told that we should predict the next week and next next week values but then test starts 2weeks after meanining it starts at the next next week from the... See more

There is a mismatch between train_df['customer_category'] and customer_df['customer_category']CUST_CAT_000 --> CUST_CAT_000CUST_CAT_001--> CUST_CAT_002CU... See more

@AJoel @meganomaly could you kindly increase the daily submission limit to like 10.