The Qazdatathon competition of data projects, which is held in order to find new approaches to solve socio-economic, methodological problems based on data, as well as to promote the culture of data management and practice of data-driven decision-making.

For the first time the competition was held jointly with the Center for Development of Payment and Financial Technologies of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan among students of universities at the national level.

In 2023, the organizers of Qazdatathon were the Bureau of National Statistics of ASPR RK and the Corporate Foundation "«El Umiti». Also the competition was scaled, not only university students could participate, but also data-scientists, data-analytics, social researchers, with an understanding of economic theory, knowledge of sociology, political science and other social sciences, as well as skills in statistical applications, programming languages and BI-tools.

During the contest, participants were provided with synthetic (artificial) data generated from real data, which opened up the opportunity for them to massively use microdata in their project work without violating the privacy policy.

The Qazdatathon competition laid the foundation for creating a culture of data management and analysis for data driven decision making, which is especially important for young professionals.

https://datathon.stat.gov.kz/