Datathon 1

This is the first practice exercise that follows the overall structure of final assessment for the course. This is a formative assessment designed to help you develop necessary expertise for the final, summative assessment.

You will have two weeks (including the Reading Week) to complete the exercise. You will present your results during the seminars on November 14th.

Groups

You are randomly assigned to a group for each datathon exercise. Click on the Groups button at the bottom to find out which group you’re assigned to and exchange contact information with your teammates.

Dataset

For the first datathon you are provided with the World Development Indicators dataset. Using this dataset you are asked to address any issue of interest to you that involves extracting insights from data. Methodology used in your project should be at least at the level of methods covered up to this week in the course.

Note: The .zip file includes both the data indicators and a codebook with variable descriptions.

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