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The First Data Science Challenge at BTW 2017

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The 17th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and Web (BTW2017) of the German Informatics Society (GI) took place in March 2017 at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. A Data Science Challenge was organized for the first time at a BTW conference by the University of Stuttgart and Sponsor IBM. We challenged the participants to solve a data analysis task within one month and present their results at the BTW. In this article, we give an overview of the organizational process surrounding the Challenge, and introduce the task that the participants had to solve. In the subsequent sections, the final four competitor groups describe their approaches and results.

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  1. Especially because, in Manhattan alone, about 2.8 million taxi trips take place each week [8]

  2. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/vz_datafeeds.shtml

  3. https://azure.microsoft.com

  4. https://studio.azureml.net

  5. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/nyregion/east-coast-snowstorm-takes-aim-at-new-york-region.html

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  7. http://btw2017-dsc-hhu.azurewebsites.net/

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  9. https://developer.here.com

  10. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cluster.dbscan.html

  11. http://postgrest.com

  12. https://github.com/indygemma/nyc-accident-explorer

  13. https://d3js.org/

  14. https://github.com/TobiasHildebrandt/Audiovisual-Analytics

  15. http://btw.lab.indygemma.com/tobias/vis

  16. https://vimeo.com/user25403611

  17. http://cs.univie.ac.at/wst/research/projects/project/infproj/1096

  18. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/02/mapping-new-yorks-traffic-accidents/8516/

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Acknowledgements

The organizers of the Data Science Challenge thank the participants and the jury for the time they invested. Furthermore, we would like to thank INFOS for sponsoring the price money of the event.

This work was partially funded by the IST-Hochschule University of Applied Sciences and by the PhD programOnline Participation, supported by the North Rhine-Westphalian funding scheme Fortschrittskollegs.

This work was partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the project Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions (ScaDS) Dresden/Leipzig (BMBF 01IS14014B) and Explicit Privacy-Preserving Host Intrusion Detection System EXPLOIDS (BMBF 16KIS0522K).

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  1. IPVS, University of Stuttgart, Universitätsstraße 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Pascal Hirmer, Tim Waizenegger, Ghareeb Falazi, Majd Abdo & Yuliya Volga

  2. Datenbanken und Informationssysteme, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Alexander Askinadze, Matthias Liebeck & Stefan Conrad

  3. Research Group Workflow Systems and Technology, Universität Wien, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Tobias Hildebrandt, Conrad Indiono & Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  4. Big Data Competence Center (ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig), Universität Leipzig, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Martin Grimmer, Matthias Kricke & Eric Peukert

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Hirmer, P., Waizenegger, T., Falazi, G. et al. The First Data Science Challenge at BTW 2017. Datenbank Spektrum 17, 207–222 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-017-0263-8

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