Transform Data, Empower Communities

Data Science Challenge

The CDU Data Science Fair 2024 offers a platform to apply data science expertise and innovative thinking. Explore real-world data and showcase talent, making a real impact on the future of the Northern Territory. Tackle real challenges, analyze trends, and present solutions that address key issues in areas like tourism, business growth, and community development.

Registration closes on September 15

Utilizing existing datasets available in NTG’s open data portal at https://data.nt.gov.au/ (combined with other external data sources), participants are invited to identify interesting insights about the urban and rural population behaviours.

Areas of focus include tourism, business growth, jobs, migration, and other relevant factors that can inform policies for future development and contribute to the growth of the Northern Territory.

Emphasising classification, categorization, correlation, visualization, and storytelling, this competition challenges participants to uncover meaningful trends and patterns that can shape the Territory's future.

Participants are encouraged to leverage the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to address any identified challenging problems.

Make yourself stand out by submitting your best data science project to be evaluated by industry judges.

Entrants may submit an outstanding data science project from previous assignments at CDU or develop a new project.

You will showcase your project to industry and academic judges in person on

Wednesday, 2nd of October 2024 at Blue 02A.1.01, CDU Casuarina

What is Required?

Participants are required to utilize existing datasets available in NTG’s open data portal, accessible at NTG Open Data Portal: https://data.nt.gov.au/. You may combine these datasets with other relevant external data sources to enhance your analysis and solutions.

Rules of Competition

Participants must be in teams of 2 to 4 students.

The data science solution must be developed in Python. Results must be submitted as .py scripts or Jupyter Notebooks written in Python.

There is no restriction on the specific Python packages.

Submission

Please submit your substantial work-in-progress by the Project Submission Deadlines stated below. You may include Python scripts, all processed datasets, and the requirements.txt file (if applicable) to replicate your Python environment.

Team Presentation

Your team must pitch your work to a panel of judges on the stated presentation date at Charles Darwin University Casuarina Campus.

DURATION: 10 minutes pitching + 5 mins Q&A per team

Online information session
~~26 Aug 2024, 4 PM – 5 PM~~ via Microsoft Teams link
Project submission deadline
~~20 Sep 2024 (the submission link has been emailed to eligible registrants)~~
Competition
02 Oct 2024, 09:00 – 17:00
Blue 02A.1.01, CDU Casuarina

Eligibility

All students who are currently enrolled on CDU’s Information Technology coursework courses (undergraduate, postgraduate, TAFE)

Judging Criteria

Submissions will be judged according to the following criteria: datasets, overall creativity and originality, technical sophistication, contextual relevance and practicality, ethical considerations and presentation.

First winner and runner up will be selected.