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      "content": "### One account per participant\n\nYou cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts.\n\n### No private sharing outside teams\n\nPrivately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted. It's okay to share code if made available to all participants on the forums.\n\n\n### Team Limits\n\nThe maximum team size is 5. All team members must be collaborators on submitted notebook. \n\n### Submission Limits\n\nThere is no daily submission limit. Only the most recent submission by a team will be evaluated after the challenge deadline.\n\n### Competition Timeline\n\nStart Date: December 10, 2020\n\nEntry Deadline and End Date (Final Submission Deadline): **February 17th, 2021 11:59 PM UTC**\n\n### COMPETITION-SPECIFIC TERMS\n\n**COMPETITION TITLE**: Acea Smart Water Analytics\n\n**COMPETITION SPONSOR**: Injenia SRL on behalf of Acea Spa\n\n**COMPETITION SPONSOR ADDRESS**: Via dei Lapidari, 12, 40129 Bologna BO, Italy\n\n**COMPETITION WEBSITE**: https://www.kaggle.com/c/acea-water-prediction\n\n**TOTAL PRIZES AVAILABLE: $25,000**\n\nFirst Prize: $12,000\n\nSecond Prize: $8,000\n\nThird Prize: $5,000\n \n\n**WINNER LICENSE TYPE**: NON-EXCLUSIVE\n\n**DATA ACCESS AND USE**: COMPETITION USE ONLY \n\nCompetitions are open to residents of the United States and worldwide, except that if you are a resident of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, or are subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions, you may not enter the Competition. Other local rules and regulations may apply to you, so please check your local laws to ensure that you are eligible to participate in skills-based competitions. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to award alternative Prizes where needed to comply with local laws.\n\n**ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES.**\n\nThe Competition named above is a skills-based competition to promote and further the field of data science. You must register via the Competition Website to enter. Your competition submissions (\"Submissions\") must conform to the requirements stated on the Competition Website. Your Submissions will be scored based on the evaluation metric described on the Competition Website. Subject to compliance with the Competition Rules, Prizes, if any, will be awarded to participants with the best scores, based on the merits of the data science models submitted. See below for the complete Competition Rules.\n\n### A. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC RULES\n\nIn addition to the provisions of the General Competition Rules below, you understand and agree to these Competition-Specific Rules required by the Competition Sponsor:\n\n\n\n#### **1. WINNER LICENSE.** \n\nUnder Section 11 (Winners Obligations) of the General Rules below, you hereby grant and will grant Competition Sponsor the following license(s) with respect to your Submission if you are a Competition winner:\n \n*Non-Exclusive*: You hereby grant and will grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import your winning Submission and the source code used to generate the Submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. To the extent your solution makes use of generally commercially available software that you used to generate your submission that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, you do not need to grant the license in the preceding sentence for that software.    \n\n####**2. PRIVACY POLICY OF COMPETITION SPONSOR**.   \nSee Section 22 Below for details on host Privacy Policy. \n\n### B. GENERAL COMPETITION RULES\n#### **1.\tBINDING AGREEMENT.** \n\nTo enter the Competition, you must agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules above (collectively, the \"Rules\"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that submission of an entry in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition (“Prizes”) unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition.\n\n#### **2.\tELIGIBILITY.** \n\nA. To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must be:\n\t(i) a registered account holder at Kaggle.com; \n\t(ii) the older of 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence (unless otherwise agreed to by Competition Sponsor and appropriate parental/guardian consents have been obtained by Competition Sponsor); \n\t(iii) not a resident of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Sudan; and\n\t(iv) not a person or representative of an entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions (see [https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx][1]).\n\nIf you are entering as a representative of a company, educational institution or other legal entity, or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and the entity you represent or are an employee. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a Prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer's or entity's policies and procedures.   \n\nThe Competition Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you provide any false information relating to the Competition concerning your identity, residency, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right, or information required for entering the Competition, you may be immediately disqualified from the Competition.\n\nB. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above or prohibited by internal policies of the Competition Entities, employees, interns, contractors, officers and directors of Competition Entities may **NOT** enter and participate in the Competition. \"Competition Entities\" means the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. If you are such a participant from a Competition Entity, you are subject to all applicable internal policies of your employer with respect to your participation.\n\n#### **3.\tSPONSOR AND HOSTING PLATFORM.** \n\nThe Competition is sponsored by Competition Sponsor named above. The Competition is hosted on behalf of Competition Sponsor by Kaggle Inc. (\"Kaggle\"). Kaggle is an independent contractor of Competition Sponsor, and is not a party to this or any agreement between you and Competition Sponsor. You understand that Kaggle has no responsibility with respect to selecting the potential Competition winner(s) or awarding any Prizes. Kaggle will perform certain administrative functions relating to hosting the Competition, and you agree to abide by the provisions relating to Kaggle under these Rules. As a Kaggle.com account holder and user of the Kaggle competition platform, remember you have accepted and are subject to the Kaggle Terms of Service at [www.kaggle.com/terms][2] in addition to these Rules.\n\n#### **4.\tCOMPETITION PERIOD.** \n\nFor the purposes of Prizes, the Competition will run from the Start Date and time to the End Date and time (such duration the “Competition Period”). The Competition Timeline is subject to change, and Competition Sponsor may introduce additional hurdle deadlines during the Competition Period. Any updated or additional deadlines will be publicized on the Competition Website. It is your responsibility to check the Competition Website regularly to stay informed of any deadline changes. *YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN YOUR LOCATION.* \n\n#### **5.\tCOMPETITION ENTRY.** \n\nNO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Competition, you must register on the Competition Website prior to the Entry Deadline, and follow the instructions for developing and entering your Submission through the Competition Website. Your Submissions must be made in the manner and format, and in compliance with all other requirements, stated on the Competition Website (the \"Requirements\"). Submissions must be received before any Submission deadlines stated on the Competition Website. Submissions not received by the stated deadlines will not be eligible to receive a Prize.\n\nSubmissions may not use or incorporate information from hand labeling or human prediction of the validation dataset or test data records.\n\nIf the Competition is a multi-stage competition with temporally separate training and/or test data, one or more valid Submissions may be required during each Competition stage in the manner described on the Competition Website in order for the Submissions to be Prize eligible.\n\nSubmissions are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who does not follow these Rules, including making a Submission that does not meet the Requirements. \n\n#### **6.\tINDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS.** \n\nA. *Individual Account*. You may make Submissions only under one, unique Kaggle.com account. You will be disqualified if you make Submissions through more than one Kaggle account, or attempt to falsify an account to act as your proxy. You may submit up to the maximum number of Submissions per day as specified on the Competition Website. \n\nB. *Teams*. If permitted under the Competition Website guidelines, multiple individuals may collaborate as a team (a \"Team\"); however, you may join or form only one Team. Each Team member must be a single individual with a separate Kaggle account. You must register individually for the Competition before joining a Team. You must confirm your Team membership to make it official by responding to the Team notification message sent to your Kaggle account. Team membership may not exceed the Maximum Team Size stated on the Competition Website.\n\nC. *Team Merger*. Teams may request to merge via the Competition Website. Team mergers may be allowed provided that: (i) the combined Team does not exceed the Maximum Team Size; (ii) the number of Submissions made by the merging Teams does not exceed the number of Submissions permissible for one Team at the date of the merger request; (iii) the merger is completed before the earlier of: any merger deadline or the Competition deadline; and (iv) the proposed combined Team otherwise meets all the requirements of these Rules. \n\n#### **7.\tCOMPETITION DATA.** \n\n\"Competition Data\" means the data or datasets available from the Competition Website for the purpose of use in the Competition, including any prototype or executable code provided on the Competition Website. The Competition Data will contain private and public test sets. 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You agree to notify Kaggle immediately upon learning of any possible unauthorized transmission of or unauthorized access to the Competition Data and agree to work with Kaggle to rectify any unauthorized transmission or access.\n\nC. *External Data*. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is publicly available to use by all participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants. The ability to use External Data under this Section 7.C (External Data) does not limit your other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 11 (Winners Obligations). \n\n#### **8.\tSUBMISSION CODE REQUIREMENTS.**\n\nA. *Private Code Sharing*. Unless otherwise specifically permitted under the Competition Website or Competition Specific Rules above, during the Competition Period, you are not allowed to privately share source or executable code developed in connection with or based upon the Competition Data or other source or executable code relevant to the Competition (“Competition Code”). This prohibition includes sharing Competition Code between separate Teams, unless a Team merger occurs. Any such sharing of Competition Code is a breach of these Competition Rules and may result in disqualification.\n\nB. *Public Code Sharing*. You are permitted to publicly share Competition Code, provided that such public sharing does not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party. If you do choose to share Competition Code or other such code, you are required to share it on Kaggle.com on the discussion forum or kernels associated specifically with the Competition for the benefit of all competitors. By so sharing, you are deemed to have licensed the shared code under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][3]) that in no event limits commercial use of such Competition Code or model containing or depending on such Competition Code.\n\nC. *Use of Open Source*. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above, if open source code is used in the model to generate the Submission, then you must only use open source code licensed under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][4]) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code.\n\n#### **9.\tDETERMINING WINNERS.** \n\nEach Submission will be scored and ranked by the Evaluation criteria stated on the Competition Website.\n\n#### **10.\tNOTIFICATION OF WINNERS & DISQUALIFICATION.**\n\nThe potential winner(s) will be notified by email. \n \nIf a potential winner (i) does not respond to the notification attempt within one (1) week from the first notification attempt or (ii) notifies Kaggle within one week after the End Date that the potential winner does not want to be nominated as a winner or does not want to receive a Prize, then, in each case (i) and (ii) such potential winner will not receive any Prize, and an alternate potential winner will be selected from among all eligible entries received based on the Competition’s judging criteria.\n \nIn case (i) and (ii) above Kaggle may disqualify the participant.  However, in case (ii) above, if requested by Kaggle, such potential winner may provide code and documentation to verify the participant’s compliance with these Rules. If the potential winner provides code and documentation to the satisfaction of Kaggle, the participant will not be disqualified pursuant to this paragraph.\n \nCompetition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any participant from the Competition if the Competition Sponsor reasonably believes that the participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Competition by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants, Competition Sponsor or Kaggle.\n \nA disqualified Participant may be removed from the Competition leaderboard, at Kaggle's sole discretion. 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If the final model’s software code includes generally commercially available software that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, then instead of delivering the code for that software to the Competition Sponsor, you must identify that software, method for procuring it, and any parameters or other information necessary to replicate the winning Submission;\n\n(b) grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license; \n\n(c) sign and return all Prize acceptance documents as may be required by Competition Sponsor or Kaggle, including without limitation: (i) eligibility certifications; (ii) licenses, releases and other agreements required under the Rules; and (iii) U.S. tax forms (such as IRS Form W-9 if U.S. resident, IRS Form W-8BEN if foreign resident, or future equivalents).\n\n#### **12.\tPRIZES.** \n\nPrize(s) are as described on the Competition Website and are only available for winning during the time period described on the Competition Website. 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Kaggle acts as an independent controller with regard to its collection, storage, sharing, and other use of this Personal Information, and will use this Personal Information in accordance with its Privacy Policy <www.kaggle.com/privacy>, including for administering the Competition. As a Kaggle.com account holder, you have the right to request access to, review, rectification, portability or deletion of any personal data held by Kaggle about you by logging into your account and/or contacting Kaggle Support at <www.kaggle.com/contact>.\n \nAs part of Competition Sponsor performing this contract between you and the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle will transfer your Personal Information to Competition Sponsor, which acts as an independent controller with regard to this Personal Information. As a controller of such Personal Information, Competition Sponsor agrees to comply with all U.S. and foreign data protection obligations with regard to your Personal Information. Kaggle will transfer your Personal Information to Competition Sponsor in the country specified in the Competition Sponsor Address listed above, which may be a country outside the country of your residence. Such country may not have privacy laws and regulations similar to those of the country of your residence. Acea Spa, as  the Competition Sponsor will process your personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy, available below (Section 22). \n\n\n#### **17.\tWARRANTY, INDEMNITY AND RELEASE.** \n\nYou warrant that your Submission is your own original work and, as such, you are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the Submission, and you have the right to make the Submission and grant all required licenses.  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Competition Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any participant who tampers with the submission process or any other part of the Competition or Competition Website.  Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage any website, including the Competition Website, or undermine the legitimate operation of the Competition is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, Competition Sponsor and Kaggle each reserves the right to seek damages from any such participant to the fullest extent of the applicable law.\n\n#### **20.\tNOT AN OFFER OR CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT.**\n\nUnder no circumstances will the entry of a Submission, the awarding of a Prize, or anything in these Rules be construed as an offer or contract of employment with Competition Sponsor or any of the Competition Entities. You acknowledge that you have submitted your Submission voluntarily and not in confidence or in trust. 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      "content": "## Welcome\n\nThe  [Acea Group](https://www.gruppo.acea.it/en)  is one of the leading Italian multiutility operators. Listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 1999, the company manages and develops water and electricity networks and environmental services. Acea is the foremost Italian operator in the water services sector supplying 9 million inhabitants in Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Molise, Campania.     \n  \n\nIn this competition we will focus only on the water sector to help Acea Group preserve precious waterbodies. As it is easy to imagine, a water supply company struggles with the need to forecast the water level in a waterbody (water spring, lake, river, or aquifer) to handle daily consumption. During fall and winter waterbodies are refilled, but during spring and summer they start to drain. To help preserve the health of these waterbodies it is important to predict the most efficient water availability, in terms of level and water flow for each day of the year.\n\n## Data\n\nThe reality is that each waterbody has such unique characteristics that their attributes are not linked to each other. This analytics competition uses datasets that are completely independent from each other. However, it is critical to understand total availability in order to preserve water across the country.    \n  \nEach dataset represents a different kind of waterbody. As each waterbody is different from the other, the related features are also different. So, if for instance we consider a water spring we notice that its features are different from those of a lake. These variances are expected based upon the unique behavior and characteristics of each waterbody. The Acea Group deals with four different type of waterbodies: water springs, lakes, rivers and aquifers.\n\n## Challenge\n\nCan you build a story to predict the amount of water in each unique waterbody? The challenge is to determine how features influence the water availability of each presented waterbody. To be more straightforward, gaining a better understanding of volumes, they will be able to ensure water availability for each time interval of the year.    \n  \n\nThe time interval is defined as day/month depending on the available measures for each waterbody. Models should capture volumes for each waterbody(for instance, for a model working on a monthly interval a forecast over the month is expected).    \n  \n\nThe desired outcome is a notebook that can generate four mathematical models, one for each category of waterbody (acquifers, water springs, river, lake) that might be applicable to each single waterbody.    \n\n<br><br>\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F6195295%2Fcca952eecc1e49c54317daf97ca2cca7%2FAcea-Input.png?generation=1606932492951317&amp;alt=media)\n\n\n\n\n<br>\nSee the [Submission Evaluation][1] criteria. \n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/acea-water-prediction/overview/evaluation",
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      "content": "\n### Can you build a model to predict the amount of water in each waterbody to help preserve this natural resource? \n\nThis is an Analytics competition where your task is to create a Notebook that best addresses the Evaluation criteria below. Submissions should be shared directly with host and will be judged by the Acea Group based on how well they address:<br>\n\n**Methodology/Completeness (min 0 points, max 5 points)**\n-   Are the statistical models appropriate given the data? \n-   Did the author develop one or more machine learning models?\n-   Did the author provide a way of assessing the performance and accuracy of their solution?\n-   What is the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of the models?\n-   What is the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of the models?\n    \n\n**Presentation (min 0 points, max 5 points)**\n-   Does the notebook have a compelling and coherent narrative?\n-   Does the notebook contain data visualizations that help to communicate the author’s main points?\n-   Did the author include a thorough discussion on the intersection between features and their prediction? For example between rainfall and amount/level of water. \n-   Was there discussion of automated insight generation, demonstrating what factors to take into account?\n-   Is the code documented in a way that makes it easy to understand and reproduce?\n-   Were all external sources of data made public and cited appropriately?\n    \n\n**Application (min 0 points, max 5 points)**\n-   Is the provided model useful/able to forecast water availability in terms of level or water flow in a time interval of the year?\n-   Is the provided methodology applicable also on new datasets belong to another waterbody?     \n\n\n###Examples of Winning Notebooks from other Analytics Competitions: \n\n-   [Luca Basanisi](https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa) - [Luca's submission](https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/quantify-the-madness-a-study-of-competitiveness) created a unique metric to label how competitive a game is.\n    \n-   [DS4G: Spatial Panel Data Modeling](https://www.kaggle.com/katemelianova/ds4g-spatial-panel-data-modeling).    [@katemelianova](https://www.kaggle.com/katemelianova) and [@artvolgin](https://www.kaggle.com/artvolgin) An excellent submission with comprehensive correction and accounting for confounding factors, with a well reasoned and explained solution and recommendation.",
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      "content": "- Start date: **December 10, 2020**\n- Entry and Final submission deadline: **February 17, 2021**\n- Winners announced: **March 10, 2021**\n\nAll deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary.\n",
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      "content": "This competition uses nine different datasets, completely independent and not linked to each other. Each dataset can represent a different kind of waterbody. As each waterbody is different from the other, the related features as well are different from each other. So, if for instance we consider a water spring we notice that its features are different from the lake’s one. This is correct and reflects the behavior and characteristics of each waterbody. The Acea Group deals with four different type of waterbodies: water spring (for which three datasets are provided), lake (for which a dataset is provided), river (for which a dataset is provided) and aquifers (for which four datasets are provided).\n\nLet’s see how these nine waterbodies differ from each other.\n\n-   Waterbody: Auser\n    \n\nType: Aquifer\n\nDescription: This waterbody consists of two subsystems, called NORTH and SOUTH, where the former partly influences the behavior of the latter. Indeed, the north subsystem is a water table (or unconfined) aquifer while the south subsystem is an artesian (or confined) groundwater.\n\nThe levels of the NORTH sector are represented by the values of the SAL, PAG, CoS and DIEC wells, while the levels of the SOUTH sector by the LT2 well.  \n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Petrignano\n    \n\nType: Aquifer\n\nDescription: The wells field of the alluvial plain between Ospedalicchio di Bastia Umbra and Petrignano is fed by three underground aquifers separated by low permeability septa. The aquifer can be considered a water table groundwater and is also fed by the Chiascio river. The groundwater levels are influenced by the following parameters: rainfall, depth to groundwater, temperatures and drainage volumes, level of the Chiascio river.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Doganella\n    \n\nType: Aquifer\n\nDescription: The wells field Doganella is fed by two underground aquifers not fed by rivers or lakes but fed by meteoric infiltration. The upper aquifer is a water table with a thickness of about 30m. The lower aquifer is a semi-confined artesian aquifer with a thickness of 50m and is located inside lavas and tufa products. These aquifers are accessed through wells called Well 1, ..., Well 9. Approximately 80% of the drainage volumes come from the artesian aquifer. The aquifer levels are influenced by the following parameters: rainfall, humidity, subsoil, temperatures and drainage volumes.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Luco\n    \n\nType: Aquifer\n\nDescription: The Luco wells field is fed by an underground aquifer. This aquifer not fed by rivers or lakes but by meteoric infiltration at the extremes of the impermeable sedimentary layers. Such aquifer is accessed through wells called Well 1, Well 3 and Well 4 and is influenced by the following parameters: rainfall, depth to groundwater, temperature and drainage volumes.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Amiata\n    \n\nType: Water spring\n\nDescription: The Amiata waterbody is composed of a volcanic aquifer not fed by rivers or lakes but fed by meteoric infiltration. This aquifer is accessed through Ermicciolo, Arbure, Bugnano and Galleria Alta water springs. The levels and volumes of the four sources are influenced by the parameters: rainfall, depth to groundwater, hydrometry, temperatures and drainage volumes.  \n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Madonna di Canneto\n    \n\nType: Water spring\n\nDescription: The Madonna di Canneto spring is situated at an altitude of 1010m above sea level in the Canneto valley. It does not consist of an aquifer and its source is supplied by the water catchment area of the river Melfa.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Lupa\n    \n\nType: Water spring\n\nDescription: this water spring is located in the Rosciano Valley, on the left side of the Nera river. The waters emerge at an altitude of about 375 meters above sea level through a long draining tunnel that crosses, in its final section, lithotypes and essentially calcareous rocks. It provides drinking water to the city of Terni and the towns around it.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Arno\n    \n\nType: River\n\nDescription: Arno is the second largest river in peninsular Italy and the main waterway in Tuscany and it has a relatively torrential regime, due to the nature of the surrounding soils (marl and impermeable clays). Arno results to be the main source of water supply of the metropolitan area of Florence-Prato-Pistoia. The availability of water for this waterbody is evaluated by checking the hydrometric level of the river at the section of Nave di Rosano.\n\n  \n\n-   Waterbody: Bilancino\n    \n\nType: Lake\n\nDescription: Bilancino lake is an artificial lake located in the municipality of Barberino di Mugello (about 50 km from Florence). It is used to refill the Arno river during the summer months. Indeed, during the winter months, the lake is filled up and then, during the summer months, the water of the lake is poured into the Arno river.\n\nEach waterbody has its own different features to be predicted. The table below shows the expected feature to forecast for each waterbody. \n\n![](https://storage.cloud.google.com/kaggle-media/competitions/Acea/Screen%20Shot%202020-12-02%20at%2012.40.17%20PM.png)\n\n\nIt is of the utmost importance to notice that some features like rainfall and temperature, which are present in each dataset, don’t go alongside the date. Indeed, both rainfall and temperature affect features like level, flow, depth to groundwater and hydrometry some time after it fell down. This means, for instance, that rain fell on 1st January doesn’t affect the mentioned features right the same day but some time later. As we don’t know how many days/weeks/months later rainfall affects these features, this is another aspect to keep into consideration when analyzing the dataset.\n\n  \n\nA short, tabular description of the waterbodies is available also downloading all datasets.\n\nMore information about the behavior of each kind of waterbody can be found at the following links:\n\n-   Aquifer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer)\n    \n-   Water spring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrology)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrology))\n    \n-   River [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River)\n    \n-   Lake [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake)\n ",
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      "content": "* 1st Place - $12,000\n* 2nd Place - $8,000\n* 3rd Place - $5,000",
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      "content": "### Submission Instructions\n\nYou can make as many submissions as you like, but we will **only consider your latest submission** before the deadline of February 17th.\n\nIf you are submitting as a team, you do NOT need to merge within the Kaggle platform (it's actually disabled), but all team members must be listed as collaborators on the submitted Notebook, and all team members must accept the competition rules before the submission deadline.\n\nA valid submission will include a Notebook Analysis. All notebooks submitted must be shared with the host on or before the submission deadline to be eligible. If submitting as a team, all team members must be listed as collaborators on all notebooks submitted. **To share your Notebook add luisamarotta as a collaborator to your Notebook before the deadline.** \n\n\n### Expected Outcomes\n\nThe goal of the project is to get a full analysis provided in form of presentation and notebook.\n\n1. Presentation which describes how the contestant reasoned to determine which features influence EACH different waterbodies’ behavior and are hence useful to build a dataset. Description of which features must be discarded; how data must be dropped/augmented, which data interval is meaningful for our problem; \n\n2. Resolve/discover hyperparameters to pass to the mathematical model;\n\n3. An executable notebook containing the performed analysis on the data; \n\n4. A mathematical model forecasting waterbodies’ water availability in terms of level or water flow in a given time interval of the year. The time interval is defined as day/month depending on the time unit the model works on (for instance, for a model working on a monthly interval a forecast over the month is expected). Please notice that we expect a model for each different kind/category of waterbody (Aquifer, Water Spring, River and Lake) and we expect the applicability of these models to each single waterbody (Auser, Amiata, Petrignano, Doganella, Luco, Madonna di Canneto, Lupa, Arno, Bilancino) \n\n5. A procedure creating the model at 4. This procedure should guarantee the replicability of the models to waterbodies which are not object of this competition.\n\n### Click here to go to the [Submission form](https://www.kaggle.com/acea-water-prediction)\n<br><br>",
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