Why are there now two alternate views of the Leaderboard?
During the KDD Cup Workshop, some participants suggested that we change the way the leaderboard works so that we display the same type of scores that were used to determine the competition winners (by validating most of the predictions instead of a small portion). Recall that during the competition, the evaluation process that powered the Leaderboard only looked at a small portion of participant prediction files; a much larger portion was used to determine the winners. We thought this suggestion was a great idea, but we didn’t want to change the Leaderboard and individual submission pages in such a way that they no longer reflected the scores and ranking given to participants at the end of the competition. As a solution, we’ve added a toggle to the Leaderboard and individual submission pages allowing you to view either the Cup Scoring, where a majority of the prediction file is used to score the entry, or Leaderboard Scoring, where a small portion of the prediction file is used to scor
