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6. Your Objective
Sustainable 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

7. Guiding questions
1. How well do different economic indicators correlate with
GDP growth?
– Which indicator(s) correlate the best?

8. Guiding questions
1. 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?

9. Guiding questions
1. 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?

10. 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

11. 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

12. Prizes
1st 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

13. Prizes
1st 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

14. More prizes… maybe

15. 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!

16. Walkthrough the available data and brief
Data Science Bootcamp
Main data sources:
Quandl.com
datacatalog.worldbank.org

17. The (data) scientific method

18. More learning resources
Introductory data science
• http://bigdatauniversity.com/
• https://stat545-ubc.github.io/

19. 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

21. Who won our previous competition?

22. Who won our previous competition?

23. makedatasense.ca/econinfo
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