随着移動定位服務的流行，阿裡巴巴和螞蟻金服逐漸積累了來自用戶和商家的海量線上線下交易數據。螞蟻金服的O2O平台“口碑”用這些數據為商家提供了包括交易統計，銷售分析和銷售建議等定制的後端商業智能服務。舉例來說，口碑緻力于為每個商家提供銷售預測。基于預測結果，商家可以優化運營，降低成本，并改善用戶體驗。
2017年阿裡雲天池平台聯合IJCAI舉辦“口碑商家客流量預測”大賽。
此次比賽以口碑業務的銷售分析和銷售建議等定制的後端商業智能服務為背景。 我們以恰當定義的銷售預測問題為題。我們鼓勵創新的解法，幫助口碑成為更加智能的商業平台，更好地服務社會。同時，希望每位參賽選手都能享受到這次比賽帶來的樂趣。
了解更多 
http://t.cn/RMJPxDa
重要時間
2月8日 08:00: 評測啟動
3月7日 10:00: 報名截止&隊伍融合截止
3月14日 23:59: 比賽結束
3月19日 23:59: 代碼 & 解題思路提交截止
3月24日 10:00: 獲勝隊伍公布
總獎金池：$3,5000刀
我們将邀請Top3的隊伍去澳洲墨爾本，在IJCAI 主會上分享獲獎solution。
趕快加入我們吧，澳洲見！
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We would like to invite you to join IJCAI 2017 Tianchi contest “Customer Flow Forecasts on Koubei.com”, which will be held from January 9 - March 24, 2017.
Koubei, Ant Financial’s online-to-offline platform provides merchants with customized back-end business intelligence services, including transaction statistics, sales analysis and marketing recommendations. In this contest, players are expected to predict the customer flow per day during the next few days for each shop, analyzing anonymized customers’ browsing and payment history as well as the relevant information of shops. We encourage innovative ideas to help achieve a more intelligent business platform which serves the business and the society better. More detail available at http://t.cn/RMJPxDa
Important dates
08:00 UTC+8, Feb. 8th, 2017: Contest begins
10:00 UTC+8, Mar. 7th, 2017: Team merge deadline
23:59 UTC+8, Mar. 14th, 2017: Contest ends
23:59 UTC+8, Mar. 19th, 2017: Code & reports submission deadline
10:00 UTC+8, Mar. 24st, 2017: Winner announcement
Award
1st place: USD 10,000
2nd place: USD 6,000
3rd place: USD 4,000
Traveling Support Prize: USD 4,000/team. We will award 2 teams (selected from top 4- 20) based on the materials (code + solution report + presentation files) they submitted.
Top 3 teams will also receive USD 3,000 as travelling support conditioned on that they present their solutions on IJCAI-17, which will be held in Melbourne on August, 2017.
We are looking forward to your submission and to meeting you in Melbourne!
Best Regards,
Tianchi Department
Alibaba Group & Ant Financial Services Group