https://github.com/ElFazouani/SUA-Outsmarting-Outbreaks-Challenge-2nd-place-solution

Thanks @Amy_Bray and whole team @Zindi for everything you do. Congratulations also to all participants. The following is solo team Sinking Sand approach. Team n... See more

Guys, we should share our learning, if not via exact code then via discussion atleast which will help the new people learn.For me, from the start itself since t... See more

This was so unexpected. What a shakeup🤣🤣🤣. Anyways, I still don't get why they reverted from them choosing the best scores to choosing the best public score.... See more

Well seems like this competition will be won by post processing. Just need clarification from @Zindi @Amy_Bray @ZINDIbased on this:"Zindi is committed to provid... See more

i noticed that the waste , water and toilets contains the same values, im i wrong

Hello @Zindi @Amy_Bray.I have a question. I just want to know if the AWS Credits for winners will be granted on personal AWS account or will it be done like the... See more

Could you please explain how the training data was merged, and how you selected the features for the model?i see that The code in OutsmartingOutbreaks_StarterNo... See more

has anyone noticed the unusualness of the cholera instances

Hello!I know is a bit late but I would like to understand something. Look at the code bellow. mask = train['ID'] == 'ID_704a38c1-35ca-4e81-ab81-02fcf41d1f72_9_2... See more

I'm confused, why is the number of unique categories in the 'Category_Health_Facility_UUID' for the train data 4 while that of the test data is 107?

@zindi Could you please tell me about the subject. I didn't find it in the variable definitions.

Hi, after the current phase of the public test set concludes, there will be a ranking for a private test set, correct? Does the private test set refer to the da... See more

I am a newcomer to the Zindi platform, and we are not allowed to use any external data in the competitions, right?

@zindi The available coordinates belong to Tanzania? I have checked through Chat Gpt, and it said "The longitude value 68.23267 seems incorrect for Tanzania bec... See more

Hey for the people that got access to the AWS resources have been able to access the sage maker , I'm struggling here.

Hi everyone,I came across something puzzling while going through the AWS recourses GitHub repo for this challenge. There seem to be references to additional dat... See more

Hello participants!Thank you for your patience while we prepared the AWS environments for your use and enjoyment. If you were within the top 100 participants of... See more

So far, gradient boosting trees gave the best results for me. For me LightGBM didn't do well as I expected. If LightGBM gave you the best results, please share... See more

Hello everyone, we hope that you are enjoying working on this challenge! This is a quick reminder that you have less than two days to make a submission in order... See more

Does anyone like to team up?

Hey guys, it's my first time doing a Zindi competition and I'm having trouble even breaking the all-zeros prediction benchmark score (~8.62 mae). Can somebody p... See more

Idk why the starter notebook gives a higher score eventhough the linkage process in it is totally wrong , when i corrected it i found that it got lower score ,... See more

In Train.csv data I found more than 4000 duplicate rows that have the same ID, with the number of groups for each ID between 2 - 8 data, each group of the same... See more

Can somebody help me out, I want merge or join the three tables with the train without lossing data?