The results of the first round of the Data Clustering Contest are in.

In our evaluation, the quality of sorting in tasks 1-4 had the greatest influence. The more subjective task 5 (sorting threads by relative importance) carried a lower weight. Overall speed of the algorithms influenced the final score.

More detailed statistics for each of the submissions are available in our latest comments on contest.com. You can also view articles for two additional days in the interface – Jan 31 and Feb 14.

In addition to the main prizes, we are awarding bonus prizes to those solutions that delivered significantly better results than the rest of the submissions in each of the tasks. If a submission required adjustments or fixes to make it work, it was penalized accordingly.

1st PLACE

🥇 Swift Skunk – €17,000 + €4,900 bonus
Bonus prizes for:
- Language detection
- News, English
- Categories, Russian
- Threads, English
- Threads, Russian
Bug fixing penalties (-€100):
- Invalid output format

2nd PLACE

🥈 Bossy Gnu – €13…