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Test your data and BI skills focusing on supply chain analytics

Test your data and BI skills focusing on supply chain analytics

Test your BI skills on a real-world dataset focusing on supply chain analytics. As the main data analyst for Just In Time, you will help solve key shipment and inventory management challenges, analyze supply chain inefficiencies, and create insightful dashboards to inform business stakeholders about potential problems and propose structural business improvements.

Prize

$500

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Your challenge

  • You can use workbooks to prepare your data in R or Python.
  • Build visulizations in Tableau or Power BI to analyze supply versus demand ratio, over or understock, and shipment delays. Don't feel limited by these, you're encouraged to use your skills to consolidate as much information as possible.
  • Create a screenshot of your (main) Tableau or Power BI dashboard, and paste that into the designated field.
  • Summarize your findings in an executive summary.

Prizes

1st

$500

$500 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice

2nd

$400

$400 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice

3rd

$300

$300 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice

4th

$200

$200 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice

5th

$200

$200 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.

1
Start a workbook in R or Python.
2
Create an insightful analysis.
3
Submit your workspace. This will create a publication.
4
Make your work public to share it and get upvoted or wait for the competition to end.

Judging criteria

Visualizations (35%)

  • Appropriateness of visualizations used.
  • Clarity of insight from visualizations.

Insights (25%)

  • Clarity of insights - how clear and well presented the insights are.
  • Quality of recommendations - are appropriate analytical techniques used & are the conclusions valid?
  • Number of relevant insights found for the target audience.

Storytelling (25%)

  • How well the data and insights are connected to tell a story.
  • How the narrative and whole report connects together.
  • How balanced the report is: in-depth enough but also concise.

Public upvotes (15%)

  • 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.
  • 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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