Competition
Demonstrate your abilities in Data Science
DataCamp’s Data Science Certifications offer an excellent opportunity to showcase your data skills, with two levels available. The Data Scientist Associate certification is designed as an entry point, providing foundational knowledge to help you become a Data Scientist by demonstrating your ability to manage data, explore metrics and visualizations, and implement supervised and unsupervised learning approaches. The Data Scientist certification builds on this foundation, testing advanced techniques and preparing you for your first Data Scientist role by assessing your ability to collect, manipulate, and analyze data, as well as communicate findings and make recommendations to business leaders.
Prize
$500 GIFT CARD
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Your challenge
This competition consist of two parts:
- 🎓 Step 1 - Get Certified! See https://app.datacamp.com/certification/get-started/associate-data-scientist/overview or https://app.datacamp.com/certification/get-started/data-scientist/overview for more info. You need to complete one of these certifications before the competition closes.
- 📝 Step 2 - One of your colleagues asks how to interpret your analysis results, where one group performed better than another. In fewer than 300 words, explain what a hypothesis test is and what it tells us, what a p-value represents in plain terms, and how this might help to support or reject a business idea. Keep to the word count! Submissions over 300 words will not be reviewed.
Prizes
1st
$500 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$400 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$300 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
4th
$300 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
5th
$300 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
How to get started
Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.
Judging criteria
Suitability for the Audience (35%)
- The response is tailored to a non-technical audience, easy to read, free from spelling and grammar mistakes.
Accuracy (30%)
- The response is an accurate description.
Originality (30%)
- The response is entertaining, original, and memorable.
Public upvotes (5%)
- Upvoting - most upvoted entries get the most points.
Rules
- Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
- The competition is open to premium DataCamp subscribers, DC Donates, and Classrooms users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
- You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.
Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.
FAQs
How do I sign up?
How do I compete in DataCamp competitions?
You will create a data analysis based on the dataset provided. You will submit your ready-to-share notebook publication for a review by fellow DataCamp learners and the judging panel in accordance with the evaluation metrics created for the competition.
How long does a competition run?
The detailed information on the competition timeline can be found on the competition’s homepage. Most DataCamp Competitions include two deadlines: a submission deadline (after which no new submissions will be accepted), and a voting deadline (after which no new votes be counted towards final evaluation). It is very, very important to keep these deadlines in mind.
What makes a winning solution?
The winners will be selected based on the judging criteria provided in the description of each competition.
How will I get my prize? Are there any conditions?
We will contact each winner separately to agree on the best way to deliver the prize. The winners are responsible for any fees or taxes liable in your home country upon receiving the funds. Any relevant conditions will be stated in the Competition Rules and Terms of Use.
Are teams allowed?
Not yet, but we are exploring this opportunity for future competitions.