DataFest 2019

Judging

Teams were judged in four specific areas, Visualization, Creativity, Insight, and Communication/Presentation.

Winning presentations were judged to be visually insightful and compelling; exhibiting a unique element of creativity; while offering an unexpected and surprising view of the data; communicated effectively and with focus, and finally able to hold the attention of both the judges and the audience.

First Place

R Rusty

Brian Mata
Yuxin Zhang
Luwei Lei
Michael Callahan

Finalist

Beckman’s Disciples

Greg Westfall
thomas Schaeffer
Drew Insley
Isaac Freeman
Stephen Polacheck

Model Overfit

Alda Chau
Andrea Wan
Zheng Zhang
Zhiling Wang

The Team

David Chen
Ruxin Tong
Kyu Kwon
Jaiqi Lai
Yiyang Wang

Best Visualization

Model Overfit
Alda Chau
Andrea Wan
Zheng Zhang
Zhiling Wang

The Team
David Chen
Ruxin Tong
Kyu Kwon
Jaiqi Lai
Yiyang Wang

Best Insight

Beckman’s Disciples
Greg Westfall
thomas Schaeffer
Drew Insley
Isaac Freeman
Stephen Polacheck

Add Me On Linkedin
Alex Chen
Cuyler Luck
Jeffery Cao
Jay Deng
Andrew Yang

Most Creative

Paranormal Distribution
Jessee Ofsowitz
John Leicht
Carlo Mazzoleni

The Curious Dolphins
Tsz Yau Iris Chow
Leah Hunt
Gabriel Berlin

BIG DATA SPONSOR

BPBP, formerly The British Petroleum Company plc, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. The energy we produce serves to power economic growth and lift people out of poverty. The way heat, light and mobility are delivered is changing. We aim to anchor our business in these changing patterns of demand, rather than in the quest for supply. We have a real contribution to make to the world’s ambition of a low carbon future.

LubrizolThe Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a market-driven global company. We combine complex specialty chemicals to optimize the quality, performance, and value of our customers’ products while reducing their environmental impact. Our products and technologies are in things you use every day – quite likely on surfaces and in fluids in the vehicles you drive, in the shampoos and soaps you use, in a medicine you take, in the clothes you wear and in electronic devices and plumbing systems in your home.

Pareto Sponsors

CKMCKM specializes in transforming data into actionable insights. Since 2011, our goal has been to change the way companies make operational and strategic decisions. We believe the power of data can be used to inform, improve, and enable our clients’ key management decisions. From top Fortune 500 firms to NGOs, we work with organizations across the globe to provide impactful recommendations and applications.

JMP | Statistical Discovery From SASJMP (pronounced “jump”) is a business unit of SAS that produces interactive software for desktop statistical discovery. Developed with scientists and engineers in mind, JMP has grown into a family of statistical discovery tools tailored to meet specific needs and used worldwide in almost every industry.

Minitab Minitab helps companies and institutions to spot trends, solve problems and discover valuable insights in data by delivering a comprehensive and best-in-class suite of statistical analysis and process improvement tools. Combined with unparalleled ease-of-use, Minitab makes it simpler than ever to get deep insights from data.

Visualization Sponsors

RStudioRStudio provides popular open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment. RStudio is a free and open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics.

 

Additional Sponsors