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Beating the odds: Students compete in DataFest Wesleyan Team Honored for “Best Innovation” at 2017 DataFest University Teams Take Home Two DataFest Awards Crunching Numbers

Photo credit Will Barr ’18    

We had a really enjoyable weekend with all 75 students participating in this year’s DataFest. Lots of thanks to our sponsors, students, consultants, and judges! Here are the winning teams: Honorable Mention: Best Pattern Detection Team: Coup D’ata (Trinity College) Subekshya Bidari, Kalyan Parajuli Tristan Peirce, Dylan Spagnuolo Best Data Preparation Team: Unsupervised Leopards (Lafayette College/Wesleyan University) Joshua Arfin, … Read more

DataFest is fast approaching! Here is some important information. As always, email vnazzaro@wesleyan.edu with any questions. LOGISTICS You may come and go as you please, but you will not be allowed to work on the data outside of Exley and Allbritton. You will have friendly consultants present until about 10pm on Friday, between 10am-10pm Saturday, … Read more

One more day left to register! Here is what the breakdown looks like now:

Would you like to hear more about DataFest 2017? Come to our info session in Allbritton 311 12:10pm-1:30pm on Friday, February 17, 2017. Pizza will be provided if you let us know you are coming. Sign-up here!

We are excited to announce that DataFest 2017 is a go! We are aiming for March 31 – April 2, 2017 at Wesleyan University. Please stay tuned as we try to confirm this date.

DataFest 2016 photos are here! Photo credit Will Bar ’18

Check out this article written about DataFest.  

Thanks to everyone for a truly wonderful weekend of DataFest-ing! We would like to thank our consultants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, SAS, The Hartford, University of Connecticut, Yale University, and Wesleyan University. Congratulations to our winners: Honorable Mention: Best Research Question Team: Databayes (Wesleyan University) Carlo Medina Korkrid (Kyle) Akepanidtaworn Amanda Yeoh Poom Chiarawongse Joshua Su … Read more