Team Bug-bytE from University of Sri Jayewardenepura emerged first runner-up at Hackstat 2.0, organised by the Stat Circle of University of Colombo in partnership with John Keells IT, Microsoft Sri Lanka and Octave, under the theme of retail. The final round of the competition took place at Finlays Colombo Limited on the 26th of October 2019. The top 20 finalists for the competition were selected from a Kaggle competition and report submission from over 90+ registered teams. The top 20 teams were given a dataset to model and pitch their results through a business perspective to a panel of judges within a span of 7 hours. The winning team comprised of Sachiki Chandradasa, Heshini Jayasekara, Kushan Pieris, Janith Wanniarachchi.
