In collaboration with useR!2014, upcoming 30 June – 3 July at UCLA, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD has just announced the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Data Visualisation Contest @ use!R 2014 is to show the potential of R for analysis and visualisation of large and complex data sets. PISA is a worldwide study developed by the OECD which examines the skills of 15-year-old school students around the world. The study assesses students’ mathematics, science, and reading skills and contains a wealth of information on students’ background, their school and the organisation of education systems. For most countries, the sample is around 5,000 students, but in some countries the number is even higher. In total, the PISA 2012 dataset contains data on 485490 pupils.
This contest is meant to illustrate the wide range of possible analysis and visualisation tools that can be used with PISA and value will be placed on participants that are able to creatively use the strengths of the PISA dataset to submit creative analyses within one of the two areas identified.
Submissions are welcomed in these two broad areas:
Track 1: Schools matter: the importance of school factors in explaining academic performance.
Track 2: Inequalities in academic achievement.
One conference participant can submit only one submission per track. Submission should be related to the track topic. The prize for best visualisation in each track is 700 USD, with awards to be announced at useR!2014.
Familiar with R and DataVis? Take a try in PISA data visualisation contest for useR2014 participants. There are two contest tracks. In each you can win 700$. More information about the contest can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/datavisualizationcontest.htm. The prizes are funded by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)…
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study of 15-year-old school pupils’ scholastic performance in mathematics, science, and reading. Every three years more than 500 000 pupils from 60+ countries are surveyed along with their parents and school representatives. The study yields in more than 1000 variables…
Yesterday OECD has published results and data from PISA 2015 study (Programme for International Student Assessment). It’s a very cool study – over 500 000 pupils (15-years old) are examined every 3 years. Raw data is publicly available and one can easily access detailed information about pupil’s academic performance and…