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The ENBIS Challenge

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So what's the ENBIS Challenge?

No matter what the situation, getting value from real-world data almost always involves the use of software. Any two pieces of software are necessarily different, so the often-heard question "how does software A compare with software B?" can be tricky to address. Probably the only way to make progress towards an answer is to assess the relative utility of A and B in the context of a specific challenge, and in the hands of a specific user, and this realisation is part of the motivation for the ENBIS challenge, which will be issued annually. The other motivation for the challenge is (over time) to gain insights into which textbook approaches to analysis actually prove most useful in the context of real-world data arising from some specifically chosen context or problem domain.

How does it work?

Each year, ENBIS will issue a challenge a few months prior to our autumn conference. Anyone can offer a submission, and details on how to do this are below. All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of three adjudicators from ENBIS, who will jointly decide on which is the best overall.

Why should I bother?

Firstly, because it will be informative and fun. Secondly, (assuming the winner is domiciled in Europe) ENBIS will pay your travel costs, hotel costs and the fee to attend our autumn conference. The winner will also have a fifteen-minute slot in the conference agenda within which they can present their winning submission.

2010 ENBIS challenge

This year the ENBIS challenge is about optimizing an industrial process via experimental design using a simulator to get realistic process results from a chip-wafer process. Find out more...

Past Challenges

2009: "Developing Products and Services People Want To Buy: Visual Analytics for the Analysis of Marketing-Related Data; Accell Inc."

Original Challenge

Winners