car-of-the-year-datasets

Datasets for Car of the Year Winners, Nominees & Voting Grids

About

Car of the Year is one of the most prestigious award for car manufacturers that produce and sell cars in Europe continent.

Every year, more than 30 different candidate cars are determined in a provisional, then finalized list. Later, several of them are selected to be nominees (in recent years, there are 7 cars marked as nominated). And, points are given to each one by tens of juries from many different European countries, with regards to engine, performance, handling, comfort, exterior-interior design, easiness and innovative technologies. Finally, in a well-known car exhibition that is held in Spring season, the winner is announced to take the Car of the Year award.

This repo contains datasets for all winners and nominees, which competed for this award since 1964; as well as their total points accumulated from juries. Plus, all voting grids for nominated cars between 2010 and 2021.

Datasets

Here, you can find two different types of datasets to inspect:

• The first type (called carOfTheYear_winners_nominees.csv) encompasses all winners and nominees with their total points, starting from 1964, up to the present.
• The second type contains voting grids for individual years, from 2010 to 2021 (called carOfTheYearXXXX_votingGrid.csv). Thus, 12 different datasets are available.

Analyses

Analyses about winners and nominees of Car of the Year are avaiable! (between 2010 and 2020)

Please click on CarOfTheYear_winners_nominees IPython file to inspect.

Notable Facts

• In 2002-2020, there are 7 cars nominated to be the Car of the Year; except in 2007 and 2013 where the number of nominated cars was 8.
• The year 2001 has seen the most nominated cars (which is 10) for the award.
• In 1995-2000, only 5 cars have been nominated.
• In 1964-1994, there were even less cars for nomination, which was 3.
• For the dataset that has all the winners and nominees, the order of the columns first show the winner car with its point, then the second-placed one with its point, and so on, for each year.
• For the datasets about voting grids, each row begins with the country and jury name, then his/her point distribution to all nominees. The leftmost number represents the point given by the jury to the award-winning car; likewise, the rightmost one is the point to the last-placed nominee. The columns have been set accordingly to reflect this order.

Source

The datasets and the data inside are carefully designed and collected from Official Car of the Year Website.