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<h2>New Free Course: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/drivendata-water-pumps-challenge">DrivenData Water Pumps Challenge</a><br>
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<p>Interested in starting to put your data science skills to work in order to solve some of the world’s biggest social challenges? <a target="_blank" href="https://www.drivendata.org/">DrivenData</a> provides that opportunity by hosting <a target="_blank" href="https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/">challenges</a> where data scientists compete to come up with the best statistical model for difficult predictive problems that make a difference. In this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/drivendata-water-pumps-challenge">practice challenge tutorial</a>, you will be predicting which water pumps throughout Tanzania are functional, which need some repairs, and which do not work at all based on a number of variables. A smart understanding of which water points will fail can improve maintenance operations and ensure that clean, potable water is available to communities across Tanzania. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">In <a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/drivendata-water-pumps-challenge">this tutoria</a>l, you will be introduced to the DrivenData Water Pumps challenge. The data sets in the challenge are fairly large and feature-heavy. The tutorial will show you how to:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.datacamp.com/courses/drivendata-water-pumps-challenge">So don’t wait and get started</a> and use your data science skills for good! Want to see other topics covered as well? Just let us know on <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/DataCamp">Twitter</a>.</p>
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