Competition
Exploring Power, Speed, Flexibility and Coordination in Seven-Year Olds
Measuring the physical abilities of children is helpful for understanding growth and development, as well as identifying gifted individuals by sports talent scouts. A common measure for physical abilities is the Motor Performance Index. An athletics talent scout has hired you to find insights in a dataset to assist their search for the next generation of track and field stars.
Prize
$50
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Your challenge
Explore the dataset to understand how the attributes of the children affect the motor skills, and the relationship between the four motor skills. Your published notebook should contain a short report on the motor skills, including:
- Summary statistics
- Visualizations
- Statistical models
- Any insights you found
Prizes
1st
$50 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$50 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$50 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
Technical approach (20%)
- Is the approach technically sound?
- Is the code high quality?
Visualizations (20%)
- Are the visualizations suitable?
- Can clear insights be gleaned from the visualizations?
Storytelling (30%)
- Does the data underpin the narrative?
- Does the narrative read coherently?
- Is the narrative detailed but concise?
Insights and recommendations (30%)
- How clear are the insights and recommendations?
- Are the insights relevant to the domain?
- Are limitations of the analysis recognized?
In the event that multiple submissions have an equally high score, the publication with the most upvotes wins.
Rules
- All responses must be submitted in English.
- Entrants must be 18+ years old.
- Entrants must be allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from their country.
- Entrants can not be in a country currently sanctioned by the US government.
- You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.
Note: To be eligible to win, submit your response before the deadline.
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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.
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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.