Shell.ai Hackathon 2023

Dear all and challenge organizers, first I want to thank all about the hackathon, everything worked very effortlessly and was a very nice topic to play around.My team and I wonder if there will be a full data publication after the contest has officially ended. It would be very cool to try some new approaches and experiments that were left behind due to time constraints.

I think there may be some issues with how submissions are scored and/or would appreciate an explanation/clarification of how the following submission is scored:   year data_type source_index destination_index value 20182019 depot_location 0     20182019 refinery_location 0     2018 biomass_forecast 0   0 2019 biomass_forecast 0   0 2018 biomass_demand_supply 0 0 0 2019 biomass_demand_supply 0 0 0 2018 pellet_demand_supply 0 0 0 2019 pellet_demand_supply 0 0 0   The above is essentially a null submission, with enough information filled in to avoid receiving an error code. This submission received a score of 80.79886 corresponding to a total cost of ~120007. No biomass is being transported and therefore the transportation costs should be 0 and the underutilization costs should be 120000 (one completely empty depot and one completely empty refinery). This then implies that the forecast error for this submission is 7. Note that as every site is either omitted or forecasted to produce no biomass the forecast cost in this case should equal the total biomass produced (assuming it is summed over all sites). This seems highly unlikely given that the total biomass for each year is approximately in the range of 250000-350000. This would suggest to me that either there is an error in the scoring function, or the forecast error is only summed over sites for which a forecast is provided?   *edited to proprely show submission

Technical/Problem Statement Discussion

I am able to get score of 62+, but it is still not updated.  Leaderboard showing my first submission score of 4. Why it is not showing my score of 62 on leaderboard?   Someone please help. Thank you

I tried searching but couldnt find the dataset or the sample solution file. Also what is the procedure for level 1? Is it to submit a ppt of idea?

In the launch webinar, some constraints were discussed. Could anyone point out to the link for  the slides and competition launch webinar videos?

If im not wrong, there must be a csv file. Where can I find that? Thanks much!

This will contain all the queries related to the addtional documents like Slides, Videos and other files used during the webinars for the CHallenge