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Your ObjectiveSustainable Development Goal #8.1: 7% annual GDP growth for the least developed countries (LDCs)
Produce a set of recommendations to the United Nations that describes the main factor(s) holding back GDP growth in LDCs, and what the UN should do in response to increase GDP growth
Guiding questions1. How well do different economic indicators correlate with
GDP growth? – Which indicator(s) correlate the best?
Guiding questions1. How well do different economic indicators correlate with
GDP growth? – Which indicator(s) correlate the best?
2. If nothing is done about your identified indicator(s), what will happen to the GDP growth?– If we do nothing, will things get worse?
Guiding questions1. How well do different economic indicators correlate with
GDP growth? – Which indicator(s) correlate the best?
2. If nothing is done about your identified indicator(s), what will happen to the GDP growth?– If we do nothing, will things get worse?
3. How many LDCs will your policy be applicable to? (not all countries are affected by the same things)– If there are outliers, why might they be outliers?
Submission details• Compete in two categories: – Undergraduates only (currently completing degree)– Open category
• Due March 13, 2016 @ midnight online – we’ll have a system set up soon
• HTML or PDF format (no word documents!)– 100 word “executive summary”– Roughly 500-1000 words– Roughly 5-10 figures
Final presentation details• Top 3 in each category (6 teams) invited to
present on the finals – March 17th @ 6pm• 5 minute “power-pitch”• Judges– Antonio, IBM Software Developer– Megan, Mobify Data Scientist– Dr. Harry Joe, UBC Statistics– … more to come
Prizes1st Place Undergraduate Team and 1st Place Open Category:• copies of Advanced Analytics with Spark for all team
members (provided by BDU), as well as ONE of the following prize packages : – Quandl Prize Package - featured blog post on quandl.com
and interview for summer internship– IBM Big Data University - featured blog post on
bigdatauniversity.com
Prizes1st Place Undergraduate Team… in addition, 1st Place Undergraduate Team will
• Be invited to publish their results - IONA Undergraduate Economics Journal
• (maybe) interview for summer machine learning research internship
More prizes… maybe
March 7th – Mentored working session• Struggling with something? Want some fresh
opinions? Need a good place to work? Can’t resist urge to procrastinate? Enjoy free pizza?
• Judges will be hovering around helping people!
Walkthrough the available data and brief Data Science Bootcamp
Main data sources:Quandl.com
datacatalog.worldbank.org
The (data) scientific method
More learning resources
Introductory data science• http://bigdatauniversity.com/• https://stat545-ubc.github.io/
March 7th – Mentored working session• Struggling with something? Want some fresh
opinions? Need a good place to work? Can’t resist urge to procrastinate? Enjoy free pizza?
• Judges will be hovering around helping people!
• Reserve your pizza at makedatasense.ca/freepizza
Who won our previous competition?
Who won our previous competition?
makedatasense.ca/econinfo
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