DATA COMPETITION GUIDELINES:

Your primary data set must come from one of the education-related data sets from

This is the link with the identification:

and accompanying information:

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) provides UNdata with a subset of the more than 1,000 indicators which may be found in the UIS Data Centre. The UIS Data Centre contains indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science, culture and communication. The UIS collects these data from more than 200 countries and international organizations.

The UIS is the primary data source of education, literacy and science data for leading publications and databases, such as:

• Education For All Global Monitoring Report
  
• World Development Indicators
  

One of the goals of this competition is to connect the information in this data set with suitable relevant data sets. Some examples (also from the same web site) include:

• National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates
  
• Environment Statistics (water, waste)
  
• Energy Statistics
  
• Crime Statistics
  

Note that the years of coverage for all datasets are not the same, and that, in some cases, the "raw data" may need to be standardized to ensure comparability across nations (e.g., standardizing for different population age distributions of the different countries).

In addition, you can use any other available data sets that are available online.

You must clearly specify in your poster how others can obtain your data, i.e., by listing the starting URL and the steps required to obtain the data.

In your analysis, you may concentrate on a single country (e.g., your own country), a block of countries in an economic or political region, or even the entire world.

You can also focus on a single year or on the temporal development, or on subregions/subareas within a country (if you can obtain such data).

You are allowed to work individually or in a small group of up to five participants on your poster.

Posters will be judged according to these criteria:
(a) Appropriateness of analysis
(b) Novelty of approaches used in the analysis
(c) Clarity of objectives, approaches, displays, and results
(d) Significance of findings
(e) Generalizability of approaches to data sets in other arenas.
(f) Overall quality of poster

Not all posters are expected to meet all six criteria to the same degree. Your poster may (but need not) be accompanied by a short description (maximum five pages). All materials must be submitted in .pdf format (see email address below).