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Newcomers to the Big Data Market

After four months of motivational lectures, educational workshops and consultations with partners on the project, the Mozgalo contest has finally been concluded. Mozgalo is the first and the only student contest in Croatia and the region which covers the areas of data mining, predictive modeling and big data solutions. This year, students were given a set of data to create a predictive model which could determine the user features most likely to yield positive results in a marketing campaign.

Of the 155 contestants in 51 teams, five of them got to the finale, and thereby earned the opportunity to present their solutions to the expert jury consisting of Davorin Capan, Mario Mrljić and Albert Ćosić from NEOS, Marko Filipin from Zagrebačka banka, Eduard Camaj from PBZ, and Andrea Draščić from Infobip. Having heard the interesting and informative presentations for different solutions, we found out who had managed to predict the impossible!

The award ceremony was held in a solemn atmosphere. The event was opened by the Vice Dean, Professor Gordan Gledec, who highlighted the importance of the contest and expressed his support for its future endeavors in the coming years. Filip Cindrić, the president of eSTUDENT then thanked everyone for their participation in the second installment of the contest, and before the finalists’ presentations, Marko Markežić, this year’s organizational team leader, said a few words of thanks to all the partners of the contest (NEOS, Zagrebačka banka, PBZ, Infobip, CROZ and Altus IT), all the participants, as well as the organizational team.

This year’s winners of Mozgalo are:

  1. place and 15,000 HRK (81 point) – team “Kampanjci” (Elio Bartoš, Andrijana Brkić, Filip Bosnić and Toni Vidović)
  2. place and 10,000 HRK (74 points) – team “The Cereal Killers” (Tomislav Maruščak and Dragutin Oreški)
  3. place and 5,000 HRK (60 points) – team “Rudari” (Igor Ignjatović i Zvonimir Ilić)
  4. place (57 points) – team “Albino kameleoni” (Kristijan Biščanić, Karlo Dumbović, Marsela Polić and Borna Vukadinović)
  5. place (50 points) – team “Homunkuli” (Viktor Kolobarić, Filip Kontić and Ivan Laković)

NEOS wishes the warmest congratulations to all finalists, and especially the winners!

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