By Rachel McNeely Every semester Dr. Anderson’s Data 101 class participates in a Kaggle data science competition to compete for a trip to a data science conference. As the winners of the Fall 2016 semester competition, my teammates, Mackenzie Schaich and Allison Hansen, and I were flown to Washington, D.C. to attend the annual nationwide…
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DATA 101 Students Compete in 2nd Annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition
The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, held the second annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition last week. Teams consisting of Data 101 students competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question. This year’s question was focused on sports analytics, where the team tried to beat bookies and…
Data 101 Students Win $2,000 and a Trip to San Francisco for the Wells Fargo Analytics Challenge
Congratulations to Jake Schwarztrauber, Katie Hane Balcewicz, and Danielle Joy Schwartz! After rigorous judging by experts in the field of Data Science, the Data 101 students were selected as one of five winners in the Wells Fargo Campus Analytics Challenge to receive a prize package. The package includes $2,000 cash and a 3-day/2-night trip for…