By participating and submitting a project, you agree to the following rules and regulations.

Spirit of the competition

Remember that datathons are like marathons. Some people go to compete but most people take part to better themselves and have fun. Whatever the reason is you're at a datathon, make sure you're upholding the hacker spirit by collaborating with other teams, helping beginners, and having fun.

Rules of the competition

  1. Team size of 2-4 participants.
  2. Teams should be made up exclusively of students from UNC Chapel-Hill who are not organizers, volunteers, judges, sponsors, or in any other privileged position at the event.
  3. The team must consist of at least one MBA student from Kenan-Flagler Business School. At least one member of the team (Undergraduate, Masters, or PhD) must be technically versed, and familiar with ML/AI algorithms.
  4. If you are selected as a finalist to present, all team members must be at the venue in-person (November 15, 2022 between 3:30-5:00PM).
  5. Teams can of course gain advice and support from organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and others.
  6. All work on a project should be done at the datathon itself. Work done outside the datathon time period will not be permitted.
  7. Teams can use an idea they had before the event.
  8. Teams can use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open-sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed.
  9. Teams must stop once the time is up. However, teams are allowed to debug and make small fixes to their programs after time is up.
  10. Projects that violate the Code of Conduct are not allowed.
  11. Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organizers' discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking the Competition Rules, breaking the Code of Conduct, or other unsporting behaviour.

Judging Criteria

Teams will be judged on these four criteria. Judges will weigh the criteria equally. During judging, participants should try to describe what they did for each criterion in their project.

  1. Model performance
  2. Creativity of solution
  3. Quality of presentation