Cobus Burger wins international data science challenge

Posted by Melt van Schoor on 2020-03-20

Dr Cobus Burger, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics, was named the winner of an international data science challenge aimed at helping the South African government reduce road accident fatalities.

The competition – from October 2019 to early February 2020 – attracted 738 data scientists from across the continent and the world. Its objective was to build a machine learning model that accurately predicts when and where the next road incident will occur in Cape Town, using historic road incident data as well as traffic data from the Uber platform.

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