Congratulations to Sarah Wiegreffe for the acceptance of her research, “Can Classifications of Publications into Translational Categories be Automated?” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit, which will take place March 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Wiegreffe’s research is a collaborative effort between Dr. Paul Anderson’s data science research lab at…
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Students Gain Valuable Insight at Women in Data Science Conference
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…
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…
Dr. Munsell’s Research on Autism Detection Selected for Publication in Nature Journal
The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Brain Characteristics in the First Year Predict Early Autism Diagnosis” has been selected for publication in the science journal, Nature. His research used neuroimaging data acquired at six months and twelve months to predict if a 24 month child will have…
Student Spotlight: Sarah Wiegreffe, Study Abroad Experience in Estonia
Sarah Wiegreffe is a data science senior at The College, who spent the spring semester of her sophomore year studying abroad in Tartu, Estonia, through the exchange program with the University of Tartu. In today’s blog post, Sarah was gracious enough to share highlights of her life-changing experience in Estonia. Alluding to Estonia’s name in…
New $400,000 Collaborative NSF Grant with Spelman College, Data Science eXtension (DSX)
The Department of Computer Science is at the forefront of big data and offers the first undergraduate data science program of its kind. Dr. Paul Anderson, Assistant Professor and Data Science Program Director, is working to incorporate data science fundamentals in computing curriculum, beyond the College of Charleston. Led by Primary Investigator Brandeis Marshall at Spelman…
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…