Competition
How can hospitals reduce readmissions?
You work for a consulting company helping a hospital group better understand patient readmissions. The hospital gave you access to ten years of information on patients readmitted to the hospital after being discharged. The doctors want you to assess if initial diagnoses, number of procedures, or other variables could help them understand the probability of readmission. They want to focus follow-up calls and attention on those patients with a higher probability of readmission.
Prize
$500
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- What is the most common primary diagnosis by age group?
- Some doctors believe diabetes might play a central role in readmission. Explore the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on readmission rates.
- On what groups of patients should the hospital focus their follow-up efforts to better monitor patients with a high probability of readmission?
Prizes
1st
$500 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
2nd
$400 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
3rd
$300 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
4th
$200 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
5th
$200 or a donation to a charitable cause of your choice
How to get started
Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.
Judging criteria
Recommendations (35%)
- Clarity of recommendations - how clear and well presented the recommendation is.
- Quality of recommendations - are appropriate analytical techniques used & are the conclusions valid?
- Number of relevant insights found for the target audience.
Storytelling (35%)
- How well the data and insights are connected to the recommendation.
- How the narrative and whole report connects together.
- Balancing making the report in-depth enough but also concise.
Visualizations (20%)
- Appropriateness of visualization used.
- Clarity of insight from visualization.
Public upvotes (10%)
- Upvoting - most upvoted entries get the most points.
Rules
- Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
- You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.
Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.