Due to the nature of the objects, I believe you will get better results if you keep some of colors in the dataset.

I love the thorough botanical analysis, it definitely underlines some main problems that need to be addressed before any human or computer vision can take place.

Sometimes you want to eat a sandwich, but you prepared an excessive gourmet meal. I do not believe the point of the datathon is to show off what your company is capable of, we know what money can get.