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🐕 Choose my dog breed: Build an AI chatbot that finds your perfect pup

🐕 Choose my dog breed: Build an AI chatbot that finds your perfect pup

You are part of an innovation team at a smart robotics company launching an AI-powered robot dog. Marketing wants a playful, useful experience where people chat with an AI "Dog Matchmaker" that recommends the top 3 real-world dog breeds based on lifestyle and personality. Your task is to build that chatbot: it should talk naturally, ask follow-up questions when needed, and compute data-driven matches using breed traits.

Prize

A ROBOT DOG

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Your challenge

  • A conversational flow that extracts user preferences (e.g., activity level, home space, family/children, allergies, time for training).
  • A matching approach that maps user preferences to breed traits and returns the top 3 breeds.
  • A results display that includes images from the image dataset; optionally generate a short social-media-ready video or post for the top match.
  • (Bonus) NLP or embeddings to interpret open-ended responses and ask dynamic follow-up questions.
  • A clear, reproducible notebook or hosted app link with instructions to run your chatbot.

Prizes

1st

$1600

Unitree Go2-Air Robot Dog

2nd

$169

ROLA Mini Companion Robot

3rd

$50

$50 gift card

How to get started

Create your most insightful build using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses and apps. Once finished, publish it for review and upvoting.

1
Start your build in R or Python in DataLab.
2
Create a chatbot that extracts preferences and recommends top 3 breeds.
3
Publish your work publicly to gather upvotes and be eligible for judging.

Judging criteria

Creativity & Functionality (40%)

  • Natural, engaging chatbot experience with relevant recommendations.
  • Robust handling of missing info via follow-up questions.

Data Use & Insight (35%)

  • Appropriate use of breed traits and clear matching logic.
  • Sound reasoning and validation of results.

Presentation & Storytelling (25%)

  • Readable, well-structured notebook/app with concise explanations and visuals.
  • Helpful executive summary of recommendations.

Rules

  • Entries must be a published DataLab workbook (publicly visible).
  • One entry per user. You may update your entry until the deadline.
  • Only the top 100 most upvoted entries will be judged by the panel.
  • Ensure your workspace runs end-to-end without errors.

Note: Please ensure you are 18+ and permitted to enter a skill-based competition in your country.

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