Bon appetit! How many people are in the cafeteria right now?

The Challenge

Data

The visitor statistics cover several years and are recorded in 5-minute intervals. The number of visitors was determined based on the number of processed receipts, independent of revenue, and accumulated across all cash registers in the cafeteria.

Task

Prediction of cafeteria visitor numbers on the University of Bremen campus for the year 2016.

Results

Student Track

RankScoreTeam NameMember Name(s)
🥇18.600The Great RegressionSimon Stelter
🥈28.634VersuchUndIrrtumEike Externest, Sebastian Kühl
🥉38.750Besorgte AnalystenHenning Post, Phil Queder, Hendrik Freiheit
       48.806crunchtimeEike Broda
       59.207data4MinerMarkus Miller