On July 19, the 2023 National University Data Science Practical Teaching Seminar and the 11th "Teddy Cup" Data Mining Challenge Award Ceremony was held in Huizhou Qianhuazhou Hotel. The conference is jointly guided by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and the Guangdong Science and Technology Association, hosted by the Guangdong Provincial (Guangzhou) Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Organizing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial College Students Mathematical Modeling Contest, and co-organized by Guangdong Teddy Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhang Liangjun, Chairman of Teddy Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
The meeting was presided over by Professor Ren Chuanxian from Sun Yat-sen University. Professor Ren Chuanxian extended a warm welcome to the leaders, teachers and students who participated in the meeting, and introduced the process and content of the whole meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, Professor Hao Zhifeng, the president of Shantou University and director of the competition organizing committee, made a report on "Independent Training of "Data + AI" Talents in the Big Model Era and Summary of the 11th "Teddy Cup" Data Mining Challenge". Professor Hao Zhifeng launched his research on the digital economy from three aspects: "big data and artificial intelligence in the era of digital economy", "exploration of the challenge on the cultivation of data science talents" and "digital intelligence in the learning process of future data science majors". Reflections on talent education, training and development in the era.
It is reported that this year is the eleventh year of the "Teddy Cup" Data Mining Challenge. 37 competition questions have been presented, covering more than ten industries such as finance, electric power, medical care, tourism, government affairs, transportation, industry, e-commerce, environmental protection, etc., combined with the real project needs of enterprises, to achieve "promoting learning through competitions" and "promoting teaching through competitions" "Promoting innovation through competition" allows participants to gain cross-border vision, industry skills, and data cognition through the competition, and also lays the foundation for building an application-oriented compound talent team.
Afterwards, the conference carried out the awarding session for the outstanding teams of this competition. Since the start of this competition, it has attracted hundreds of universities and more than 3,800 teams from all over the country to participate, and has received widespread attention from all walks of life. This challenge has produced special prizes and won 3 Teddy Cup teams, 3 special prize teams, and one team. The first prize and won 3 teams of Wangsu Innovation Award, 137 first prize works, 383 second prize works, 791 third prize works and 42 best organization awards (for schools).
The "Teddy Cup" Data Mining Challenge is sponsored by the Teddy Cup Data Mining Challenge Organizing Committee, and undertaken by People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House and Guangdong Teddy Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. The competition promotes learning, motivates students' enthusiasm for learning data mining, and improves students' comprehensive ability to analyze and solve practical problems; promotes teaching through competitions, promotes the promotion and application of data mining technology in colleges and universities; promotes research through competitions, transforms relevant intellectual resources for colleges and universities , to provide a cooperation platform for advancing the productivity of the national big data strategy.