Outline of the program

• Opening webinar:

  • Introducing event details and answering questions;
  • Scientific speeches;
  • Introducing datasets.

• Competition:

  • Teams arrangement;
  • Choosing data set;
  • Conduct the competition;
  • Judging contest;

• Closing webinar:

  • Event report;
  • Announcing winners.

Criteria for success in the competition

• The external quality of the report in terms of fonts, structuring and the way the content is arranged;
• The quality of the content of the report in terms of the way of writing, phrasing, correctness of the content in terms of meaning;
• The correctness of the methodology and how to use it in solving the problem;
• The quality of the oral presentation and compliance with the timing and the level of readiness to answer.

Subject of Data sets

This event consider three data sets in the following areas:

1. Medical insurance;
2. Prescription drugs;
3. Vehicle collisions.

Further information about the data sets will be given in this webpage and also in the opening webinar

Some notes about the data sets

• From each data set, the first 30 rows can be downloaded in Excel file format by clicking on the name of the data sets in the above;
• The volume of all three data sets is large enough to be viewed and managed with common software such as Microsoft Excel:
  • Medical insurance data includes three sheets, one of which has about 290,000 rows and 9 columns, the second sheet has about 50,000 rows and 7 columns, and the third sheet has about 100,000 rows and 5 columns;
  • The data of drug prescriptions is about 150 thousand rows and 18 columns;
  • Vehicle accident data is about 90 thousand rows and 30 columns;
• The amount of data for the amateur level is 50% of the cases mentioned and randomly selected from among them.

Scientific committee

• David Banks, Duke University, USA
• Daniel R. Jeske, University of California, USA
• Javad Faradmal, Medical University of Hamedan, Iran
• Luca Frigau, Cagliari University, Italy
• Ozan, Kocadagli, Mimar Sina University, Turkey
• Paulo Rodrigues, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Rahim  Mahmoudvand, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
• Seyed Yaser Samadi, Southern Illinois University, USA
• Tahir, Ekin, Texas State University, USA
• Ashraf Daneshkhah, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran

Organizing Committee

• Rahim Mahmoudvand, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
• Fatemeh Moameri, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran
• Zahra Seifi, AGNA, Iran
• Mahlagha Moameri, AGNA, Iran
• Soraya Moamer, Medical University of Hamedan, Iran

Only webinars

• • Free of charge

Webinars and competition

• • 15 USD; link of payment will be send by email after registration
    

Important points

• To participate in the contest, the registration form must be completed and submitted by 23:59 on 6 Oct (IRST time zone).
  
• All team members must be registered for this event. Otherwise, the selected data will not be sent.
• It is necessary to respect the principles of professional ethics in conducting the competition.
• Team members are committed to use the received data only for this event.

Registration form

registration is closed

Important points

• To participate in the contest, the following form must be completed and submitted by 23:59 on 8 Oct (IRST time zone).
  
• All team members must be registered for this event. Otherwise, the selected data will not be sent. Receipt of the registration payments must be uploaded in the form.
  
• Teams can only choose one dataset and it is impossible to change it after selection.
• It is necessary to respect the principles of professional ethics in conducting the competition.
• Team members are committed to use the received data only for this event.

Team arrangement and data selection

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