Maven Power Outage Challenge
Use raw data from the U.S. Department of Energy to visualize power outages over the past 20 years.
Nov 9, 2023
Start date
Dec 10, 2023
Deadline
Annual Membership + Winner T-Shirt
Grand Prize
Live Finalist Voting Video
Challenge Objective
For the Maven Power Outage Challenge, you'll be playing the role of a Senior Analytics Consultant hired by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Electricity outages are a growing concern as we enter an age of unprecedented energy demand and climate disasters. We have event-level power outage data going back to 2002, but have struggled to make sense of it due to severe issues with the data quality and integrity.
We need you to consolidate and clean up the raw data, and create a dashboard or report to help us understand patterns and trends around outages, quantify their impact on our communities, and identify possible weak points in the grid.
Last but not least, please explicitly call out any caveats or assumptions you make in regards to data quality issues or missing values.
About the Data Set
Information on electric disturbance events is collected using Form DOE-417 and published online in an annual summary. The dataset contains 4 files for download: An Excel spreadsheet containing the annual summaries, and 3 PDF documents for reference (the survey form, intructions, and documentation for online form submissions).
Official Terms & Conditions
For this challenge, Maven Analytics will give away up to 3 Annual Pro individual subscriptions (including awards for "First-time Entrant", "Fan Favorite" and "Challenge Winner").
After the 1 year period, subscriptions will renew at full price unless canceled (cancel at any time).
A "First-time entrant" is a Maven Analytics user who has published a project to Showcase assigned to a Maven Challenge for the first time.
To be eligible, you must publish your project and submit your entry prior to the challenge deadline
The "Fan Favorite" winner will be determined based on project likes on the Maven Showcase page exactly 1 week after the challenge deadline, and other finalists and winners will be selected by the Maven Analytics team via live vote, and announced from the Maven Analytics LinkedIn account.
No purchase is necessary to enter.
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