About This Hackathon

E-commerce platforms have been in existence for more than 2 decades now. The popularity and its preference as a common choice for buying and selling essential products have grown rapidly and exponentially over the past few years. E-commerce has impacted the lifestyle of common people to a huge extent. Many such platforms are competing over each other for dominance by providing consumer goods at a competitive price. In this hackathon, we challenge data science enthusiasts to predict the price of commodities on an e-commerce platform. Given are 7 distinguishing factors that can influence the price of a product on an e-commerce platform. Your objective as a data scientist is to build a machine learning model that can accurately predict the price of a product based on the given factors.

Key Information

• Category: Hackathon
• Difficulty Level: Beginner
• Status: Expired
• Start Date: 2020-06-12T18:00:00Z
• End Date: 2020-06-15T07:00:00Z
• Current Participants: 689

Rules and Guidelines

One account per participant. Submissions from multiple accounts will lead to disqualification The submission limit for the hackathon is 10 per day after which the submission will not be evaluated. All registered participants are eligible to compete in the hackathon This competition counts towards your overall ranking points You will not be able to submit once you click the “Complete Hackathon” button. You may ignore this feature We ask that you respect the spirit of the competition and do n

Evaluation Criteria

The leaderboard is evaluated using RMSLE for the participant’s submission.

Quick Summary

E-commerce Price Prediction: Weekend Hackathon #8 is a beginner level hackathon currently expired. It has 689 participants. The event runs from 2020-06-12T18:00:00Z to 2020-06-15T07:00:00Z.Registration is free and open to all skill levels.