Competition
Reporting on Sales Data
This competition is designed to help you get started with DataCamp Competitions and familiarize yourself with how competitions work. You work in the accounting department of a company that sells motorcycle parts. The company operates three warehouses in a large metropolitan area. You’ve recently learned data manipulation and plotting, and are helping your colleague analyze past sales data. Your colleague wants to capture sales by payment method. She also needs to know the average unit price for each product line.
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Your challenge
Create a report to answer your colleague's questions. Include:
- What are the total sales for each payment method?
- What is the average unit price for each product line?
- Create plots to visualize findings for questions 1 and 2.
- [Optional] Investigate further (e.g., average purchase value by client type, total purchase value by product line, etc.)
- Summarize your findings.
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. 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 17th February, 2022 at 22:59 PT.
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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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.