Challenge Overview
Welcome to our Topcoder Skill Builder "Data Science" Competition!
We are excited to kick-off our plans to help everyone skill up, have fun, and earn more money through Topcoder Gigs and Competitions. Jump-in, build your skills and as always let us know what you think and where Topcoder can continue to improve and bring competitions that are meaningful to you.
Data science is the domain of study that deals with vast volumes of data using modern tools and techniques to find unseen patterns, derive meaningful information and make business decisions. Data science uses complex machine learning algorithms to build predictive models.
In this Data Science Skill Builder Competition you will learn the basics of the Python programming environment including fundamental Python programming techniques and how to build predictive data models using Python.
Topcoder Skill Builder Competition Structure
- Skill Builder Competition will have three (3) problems (Easy, Medium, and Hard) to solve.
- The prizes will be awarded on the basis of leaderboard points.
Prizes
We have 10 prizes to give out. These prizes will be given out manually (and not at the end of the contest automatically) based on the reviews and overall leaderboard. The prizes are:
- 1st: $750
- 2nd: $400
- 3rd: $250
- 4th: $150
- 5th :$100
- 6th: $50
- 7th : $25
- 8th : $25
- 9th : $25
- 10th : $25
Submission Guidelines
Please Note - You don’t need to submit anything on this competition, but submit on a particular level/problem.
Instructions
- We have prepared three problems: Easy, Medium, and Hard, which are worth 250, 500, 1000 points respectively. Points are based on the difficulty of the problem.
- The competitions are related to each other.
- The links to the problems/competitions are provided below.
- Each problem has some detailed requirements to achieve. We will judge your submission based on the requirements being fulfilled in each problem, so as long as the requirements are met with minimal code quality, you would be rewarded with points for that particular problem.
- Here is the leaderboard with individual problem scores and total score. This will update only once at the end of the skill builder. If multiple submissions, then the latest submission time will be taken into account while scoring.