Competition
Reducing the number of high fatality accidents
You work for the road safety team within the department of transport and are looking into how they can reduce the number of major incidents. The safety team classes major incidents as fatal accidents involving 3+ casualties. They are trying to learn more about the characteristics of these major incidents so they can brainstorm interventions that could lower the number of deaths. They have asked for your assistance with answering a number of questions.
Prize
$500
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- What time of day and what day of week do most major incidents happen?
- Are there any patterns in the time of day/ day of the week when major incidents occur?
- What characteristics stand out in major incidents compared with other accidents?
- On what areas would you recommend the planning team focus their brainstorming efforts to reduce major incidents?
Prizes
1st
$500 gift card or donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$400 gift card or donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$300 gift card or donation to a charitable cause of your choice
4th
$200 gift card or donation to a charitable cause of your choice
5th
$200 gift card or 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
Recommendations (35%)
- Clarity of recommendations - how clear and well presented the recommendation is.
- Quality of recommendations - are appropriate analytical techniques used & are the conclusions valid?
- Number of relevant insights found for the target audience.
Storytelling (30%)
- How well the data and insights are connected to the recommendation.
- How the narrative and whole report connects together.
- Balancing making the report in depth enough but also concise.
Visualizations (25%)
- Appropriateness of visualization used.
- Clarity of insight from visualization.
Public upvotes (10%)
- 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.
- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. In the event of multiple entries being submitted the first entry will be considered as the main entry.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid. This competition ends on 6th December, 2021 at 22:59:59 PT.
- In the event of a tie, the publication that is submitted first will win.
Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.