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Exploring power, speed, flexibility and coordination in seven-year olds

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.

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Your challenge

  • Summary statistics
  • Visualizations
  • Statistical models
  • Any insights you found

Prizes

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$50

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2nd

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3rd

$50

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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.

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Start a workbook in Python or R
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Create an insightful analysis
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Submit your workspace. This will create a publication
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Wait for the competition to close

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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