Looking for new real world data to explore?

Ready to get into the championship mindset for March Madness?

We have just what you need, including another chance to win a free all-access membership to Maven!

We've just added another fun data set to the Data Playground, with career basketball stats for Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

This dataset is perfect for exploring & analyzing metrics and then using visualizations to highlight the comparisons, so fire up your favorite BI tools (Excel, MySQL, Power BI, Tableau, etc.) and dig in!

To go along with this release, we’re launching the Jordan vs LeBron Challenge and giving away a free all-access membership to the winner.

We’ll share more about the challenge details below, but first let’s talk about the data…

About the dataset

• This dataset contains 4 tables

• 2 tables include their regular season stats, one for each player

• 2 tables include their playoff stats, one for each player

• Each record in all 4 tables represents one game

• Records contain details about their age, team, minutes played, and offensive and defensive stats for that game

How to play the Jordan vs LeBron Challenge

For the Jordan vs LeBron Challenge, you’ll be answering the ultimate question…

Who is the greatest basketball player of all time?

This debate is usually left to the sports media, but now the data analysts are taking over!

Your task is to declare Michael Jordan or LeBron James as the G.O.A.T. and back up your decision with data visualization.

Here’s how to submit your entry:

• Follow Maven Analytics on LinkedIn

• Share a LinkedIn post that contains both a direct @ mention to @Maven Analytics, and the hashtag #jordanvslebronchallenge (you can still play if you already follow Maven)

• In your post, share an image that highlights your decision along with the analysis to justify it (it must be a single image)

• Tag, mention, and invite your connections to play along

How to win

In honor of March Madness, we will be doing a bracket-style tournament for this month’s data challenge.

A sweet sixteen of tournament entrants will be chosen from the challenge submissions. From there, we’ll be reducing the pool to the elite eight, the final four, and finish with the championship game, declaring the challenge winner!

What you can win

As part of the Jordan vs LeBron Challenge, we'll be giving away 4 all-access Maven memberships completely free of charge.

The winner will receive an annual membership, and the rest of the final four will receive one month memberships, giving them access to all of our Excel, Power BI, Tableau, and SQL courses, as well as our ongoing Machine Learning series, all with direct support and coaching from our expert instructors.

No purchase is necessary to participate. As always, this challenge is open to both current Maven subscribers and new students who have no relationship with Maven.

Check out the official rules below...

Official Terms (Jordan vs LeBron Challenge)

• Maven Analytics will give away 1 annual subscription for an individual account to the challenge winner. After the one year period, the subscription will expire.

• Maven Analytics will give away 3 one month subscriptions for an individual account to the rest of the final four (1 each). After the one month period, the subscription will expire.

• No purchase is necessary to enter.

• The challenge will close to new entries on Tuesday, March 24th, 2021, at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted prior.

• After the submission deadline, the sweet sixteen will be chosen by a panel of previous challenge winners, Maven Hall of Famers, and the Maven team.

• Maven Analytics will narrow down the 16 entrants to the elite 8, final 4, and championship game, then select 1 winner from the final, and will announce the winner on Tuesday, April 6th, 2020 at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time. The official announcement will be posted on LinkedIn from the Maven Analytics LinkedIn account.

Don't want to participate in the Jordan vs LeBron Challenge? No problem. You can still analyze the data on your own. All of the Data Playground datasets are completely free and are available for everyone to learn with. Feel free to dig in anytime.

Check out the Jordan & LeBron data sets, and many more, at the Data Playground.

Happy analyzing!

-Enrique