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Review Nº 03

Drivers of Data Center Locations Across European NUTS3 Regions
AuthorsGroup_03: Gul Zubair, Kumar Mukesh, Kunwar Sanjaya, Rankiripathiranage Meshan Chanuka Appuhamy, Togrul Nabiyev
30/30
Score
Excellent submission with strong econometric framing, leakage-aware modelling, clustered inference, predictive validation, and a thoughtful count-model robustness check.
Data Centres · Final Review

The Pros

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Very clear research question and literature gap; strong methodology with transformations, correlation/VIF pruning, and train-only preprocessing; interpretable country-clustered logistic regression is well matched to the project; reports AUC, PR-AUC, Brier score, and baseline; includes count robustness via Negative Binomial; interpretations are cautious and distinguish association from causality.

The Cons

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The positive sign on distance to nearest IXP remains unresolved; some important preprocessing details could be more reproducible; spatial dependence beyond country clustering is acknowledged but not addressed; visual evidence and source/data-collection details are somewhat secondary to modelling.
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