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[JSGandora]

If doing disease detectives makes you go on that website a lot so that you're familiar with most of it, then I guess it does. But google search, once again, provides everything.

[tornado guy]

Is being in disease detectives a major advantage in compute this, or does it not matter?

I took meteorology last year as well as compute this, and it really doesn't matter that much if you do or don't do an event that goes along with compute this. The stuff that they make you look up is to random, and it is data based, so most likely it is stuff you won't study. Sometimes they do give you a question that you might know, but you still have to look it up and get the link.

[spacescholar]

Trying to memorize the whole website wouldn't help and would take a lot of time.

[rohitjalaluddin]

I believe that this year's Compute This will be average in terms of how to find info.

[Sherry Berry]

Doing Disease Detectives might give you an advantage, but I'm 99% sure that the people who come up with the events and challenges already thought of that, and made sure to make you find really obscure data that you wouldn't look at for Disease Detectives.

[The_Beast]

I was just put in to this event about a week from the first competition. What is the most important info?

[zyzzyva980]

The Compute This Wiki has some good information

[EpicFailure]

Is practicing a lot the best way to prepare for this event?

Also, what are some tips while putting in search terms? Copy the whole phrase, chop the question up etc.

[Skink]

Practicing generally helps for all events, doesn't it?

What I've found is that it isn't so much butchering the phrase so much as inputting the phrase and then knowing what to do with the search results. When people write these things, you almost NEVER pick the first couple hits. I'd go for the full phrase but then scroll down a ways when looking for what link contains the information you're after.

[Sherry Berry]

What I've found is that it isn't so much butchering the phrase so much as inputting the phrase and then knowing what to do with the search results. When people write these things, you almost NEVER pick the first couple hits. I'd go for the full phrase but then scroll down a ways when looking for what link contains the information you're after.

Really? We always copy and paste the quote, add the website name at the end (so for this year it'd be CDC.gov) and the results are almost always in the first five links.