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Data Detective

Find a hidden insight in a public dataset that nobody has reported. 72 hours.

3 days4 scoring metrics
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Challenge Description

Take any publicly available dataset and use AI to find a genuinely novel, interesting, and verifiable insight that hasn't been widely reported. Not "I ran a regression." A real finding that makes people say "wait, really?" Publish your analysis and see if it gets picked up.

Rules

  • Dataset must be publicly available and cited
  • Insight must be novel (not previously reported in mainstream media)
  • Analysis must be reproducible and shared publicly
  • AI can perform all analysis and visualization
  • Must publish findings as a blog post, thread, or paper
  • Findings must be factually accurate (verifiable)

Scoring Criteria

Insight Novelty

community vote

How surprising and non-obvious is the finding?

35%

weight

Analysis Rigor

judge

Statistical soundness and methodology

30%

weight

Presentation

community vote

Clarity of writeup and visualizations

20%

weight

Virality

link

Did the finding get shared/cited by others?

15%

weight

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"Hidden in public data: insights nobody noticed until AI went looking."

Tools Allowed

Any AI Tool

Tags

#data#analysis#research#insight#discovery

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Found something wild in {dataset} data using AI analysis: {insight}. Full writeup: {link} #PromptWars

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