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Challenge 2 - Linguistic Diversity

<p><strong>Difficulty:</strong> Easy</p><p><strong>Description: </strong>You are a linguist studying linguistic diversity around the world. You’ve found a dataset that includes information about countries, such as the number of languages spoken, area, and population. The dataset also contains a column called MGS, which refers to the mean growing season in each country (i.e., how many months per year crops can be grown in that country, on average).</p><p><strong>Beginner-Friendly Objectives:</strong></p><ol><li><p>Learn how to import a CSV file into KNIME.</p></li><li><p>Perform calculations between columns.</p></li><li><p>Sort a table using a specific criterion.</p></li><li><p>Filter the top rows based on your selected criteria.</p></li></ol><p><strong>Try to answer these questions:</strong></p><ol><li><p>What are the top 5 countries by the number of languages spoken?</p></li><li><p>What are the top 5 countries by the ratio of languages spoken to population?</p></li><li><p>What are the top 5 countries by the ratio of languages spoken to land area?</p></li><li><p>Finally, do you notice any patterns related to the MGS value?</p></li></ol>

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