Third annual Cajamar UniversityHack 2019 announced

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The third edition of Cajamar UniversityHack 2019 begins on February 1 and ends on April 11. Up to 210 teams of more than 600 data scientists from 21 universities and Spanish higher education centers will participate with the Cajamar Group, in collaboration with Indra, Ernst & Young, Idealista and Haya Real Estate.

Another year and Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar, through Cajamar Data Lab, is launching Cajamar UniversityHack 2019, an event that aims to promote young Spaniards interested in 'Data Science', giving them the opportunity to create their projects on real data of one of the entities most significantly financial in Spain, real estate. In this edition, up to 210 teams will be composed of more than 600 data scientists from 21 Spanish universities and centers of higher education.

In this third edition of the Cajamar UniversityHack 2019, in which Indra, Ernst & Young, Idealist and Haya Real Estate also in collaboration and which begins on February 1 and ends on April 11, participants will work toward quantifying the degree of success of the real estate offerings in one of the two categories of competition: the Minsait Real Estate Modeling, where participates are asked to create a predictive model on the success of Grupo Cajamar listings, based on the real estate information shown.

For this challenge, data from web visits on Haya Inmobiliaria and information from Idealista will be provided; and the Ernst & Young Branch Visualization, in which participants must create an advanced search engine that includes a recommendation engine based on the location of the person who wants to perform an operation, when they want to perform it and the type of operation, and what do they want to do. The search engine must indicate the office or cashier of the network of offices of the Cajamar Group, or the cashier of another entity that is most interested in performing the operation.

In addition to the financial prize for the finalists, participants will have the opportunity to opt for the labor selection processes of the sponsoring companies. In this edition they are Indra's Minsait, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Kabel, KPMG, Viewnext and Teralco, as well as the Cooperative Group Cajamar.

The 21 Spanish universities and centers of higher education participating are:

• AFI Analytics
• CUNEF
• Deusto
• EOI
• ESIC
• UCAM
• Autonomous University of Madrid
• University Carlos III of Madrid
• University of Alicante
• University of Almería
• University of Granada
• European University
• Polytechnic University of Madrid
• University of Barcelona
• University of Valencia
• Universitat Jaume I Castelló
• UOC
• Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
• U-TAD
• MBIT School
• CIO Universitas Miguel Hernández

The registration period will be open until January 28.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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