Competition
Unveiling trends in renewable energy 🌍🔋 - The Data Scientist master
The race to net-zero emissions is heating up. As nations work to combat climate change and meet rising energy demands, renewable energy has emerged as a cornerstone of the clean transition. Solar, wind, and hydro are revolutionizing how we power our lives. Some countries are leading the charge, while others are falling behind. But which nations are making the biggest impact? What’s driving their success? And what lessons can we learn to accelerate green energy transition? As a data scientist at NextEra Energy, one of the world’s leading renewable energy providers, your role is to move beyond exploration, into prediction. Using a rich, real-world dataset, you’ll build models to forecast renewable energy production, drawing on indicators like GDP, population, carbon emissions, and policy metrics. With the world watching, your model could help shape smarter investments, forward-thinking policies, and a faster transition to clean energy. 🔮⚡🌱
Prize
$50 GIFT CARD
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- Train Your Model: Use the Training Set, which contains all features and the target (`Production (GWh)`), to build and fine-tune your model. Explore, clean, and transform the data as needed.
- Generate Predictions: Use your trained model to make predictions for the Test Set (20%), which has all the features except `Production (GWh)`. The Test Set also has an `ID` column, which uniquely identifies each row.
- Save your predictions as a CSV file with exactly two columns: `ID`: Directly from the Test Set (must match exactly), and `Predicted Production (GWh)`: Your model’s predictions for each row.
Prizes
1st
$50 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$40 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$30 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
4th
$30 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
5th
$30 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
Your submission will be evaluated based on Model accuracy (80%), measured by RMSE, and Community Votes (20%).
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.
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