Nobel Prize Winners

May 2022 Ops Difficulty 1/5 CSV 24.4 KB 923 rows × 14 cols 8 downloads
  • nobel-prize
  • awards
  • demographics
  • geographic
  • timeseries

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

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:

  • firstname
  • surname
  • born_country_code
  • died_country_code
  • gender
  • year
  • category
  • share
  • name_of_university
  • city_of_university
  • country_of_university
  • born_month
  • age
  • age_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.

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.

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