Competition
Predicting industrial machine downtime 🔧 Level 1
You work for a manufacturer of high-precision metal components used in aerospace, automotive, and medical device applications. Your company operates three different machines on its shop floor that produce different-sized components, so minimizing the downtime of these machines is vital for meeting production deadlines. Choose your difficulty level! You decide how challenging this competition will be. Depending on your skill level, decide on which aspect you want to focus. Each difficulty level uses the same dataset, but each time with increasing difficulty.
Prize
$100 GIFT CARD
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- What is the first and last date readings were taken on?
- What is the average Torque?
- Which assembly line has the highest readings of machine downtime?
Prizes
1st
$100 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$100 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$100 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
4th
$100 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
5th
$100 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
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?
- Quality of the executive summary.
Storytelling (35%)
- 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 (20%), if applicable
- 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. You may update your entry up to the deadline. You can participate in more than one level though
- 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.