Competition
What Makes a Good Book?
As reading trends keep changing, an ambitious online bookstore has seen a boost in popularity following an intense marketing campaign. Excited to keep the momentum going, the bookstore has kicked off a challenge among their data scientists. They've equipped the team with a comprehensive dataset featuring book prices, reviews, author details, and categories. The team is all set to tackle this challenge, aiming to build a model that accurately predicts book popularity, which will help the bookstore manage their stock better and tweak their marketing plans to suit what their readers love the most. Help them get the best predictions!
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Your challenge
Use your skills to help the online store find the most popular books.
- You can use any predictive model to solve the problem of categorizing books as popular or unpopular.
- Use the accuracy score as your metric to optimize, aiming for at least a 70% accuracy on a test set.
- You may also wish to use feature engineering to pre-process the data.
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
This competition is for helping to understand how competitions work. This competition will not be judged.
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.
- 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.
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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.