Data Mining Cup 2007

Student from RWTH Aachen University wins Data-Mining-Cup 2007, 5 more among the top 10.

Top 10 of the results table

In total, 230 students submitted solutions. (Complete list of results: PDF)

Congratulations to the other teams.

Press reactions

• The Handelsblatt, a German newspaper with a focus on business has written an article about our success in the data mining cup.
• European Marketingportal ( local cache)
• OneToOne ( local cache).

Results from other years

• In 2005, a student from our team won the data mining cup, and all other participants were among the top 20.
• In 2004, the three participating students from our lab obtained ranks 1,3, and 5.
• We obtained the 2nd, 2nd (same number of points), 6th, 7th, and 9th place out of 40 in a Data Mining Competition from the Gesellschaft fuer Klassifkation

For more information on the methods used, feel free to contact me.

We prepared a short press statement in english and german