Nobel Prize Winners
923 Nobel Prize winners with category, gender, country of birth, university, age at award, and share columns. Ideal for category-distribution analysis, geographic clustering, and age-trend visualisations.
Challenge brief
slug: 2022-05-nobel-prize-winners title: Nobel Prize Winners year: 2022 month: 05 source: authored authored_at: 2026-04-19 needs_leon_review: true
Nobel Prize Winners - Challenge Brief
Challenge period: May 2022 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the May 2022 DataDNA challenge.
About the data
The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:
firstnamesurnameborn_country_codedied_country_codegenderyearcategorysharename_of_universitycity_of_universitycountry_of_universityborn_monthageage_get_prize
Suggested analytical angles
- Which categories have the most skewed geographic or gender distribution?
- How has the average age at award moved across decades?
- Which universities appear most frequently across winners?
- How do shared prizes cluster by country and discipline?
What great submissions did
This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original May 2022 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.
Editorial note
_This stub was authored by Claude on 2026-04-19 for Leon's review. Refine the suggested angles and confirm factual accuracy before setting brief_status = leon_reviewed in the audit log._
This dataset was the subject of the DataDNA May 2022 community challenge. The original scoring and leaderboard pre-date the current submission system and are not available for display.
