Participate
Who can apply
Students and researchers: BTech, MTech, MSc, PhD and similar. Take part alone or in a team of up to four. Please register with your institutional email ID if you have one.
What you need
Python and pandas, and some comfort with statistics or machine learning. No finance background is required.
How to take part
Register your team
The form takes a few minutes: team name, members, a contact person and a short description of the team.
Get your ticket number
It arrives by email as soon as you register. Quote it in every message to us.
Hear from us
Selected teams receive the data pack, the full rules and a worked example from Thu 1 Oct, as they register.
Build
The second data file arrived on Sat 24 Oct.
Submit
between Sat 24 Oct and Tue 27 Oct, 5 pm IST, through the link sent to your registered email.
Selected teams have received the data pack and the full rules.
Timeline
Thu 24 Sep
Registration opens
Thu 1 Oct onwards
Selected teams receive a confirmation, the data pack and the full rules, as they register
Thu 8 Oct, noon IST
Registration closes
Sat 24 Oct
The second data file, covering 25 Sep to 23 Oct
Sat 24 to Tue 27 Oct, 5 pm IST
Submission window, extended by a day. The link is sent to your registered email
28 Oct to 3 Nov
The organizers run and review every submission
Mid November
One-to-one calls with prize contenders, then verdicts
Questions
Contact
Email contact@commodity-open.xyz and quote your ticket number.