Due to growing concerns about COVID-19, and increasingly restrictive regulations in Connecticut about conferences and large meetings, we have decided to cancel DataFest 2020. We will be back next year and look forward to seeing you all then.

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DataFest at Wesleyan University — April 3-5, 2020

DataFest is a data analysis competition where students are presented with a large, complex, surprise data set and work over the weekend to explore, analyze, and present their findings.  Teams of 3-5 students work together and compete against other teams. This year we are inviting teams from Wesleyan University, Yale, Conn College, Trinity College, UConn, and Bentley University.

Awards will be given for the teams that impress the judges the most.

We will be in touch next semester with registration information.

Registration for DataFest is now open – please visit the registration tab above.

DataFest will take place April 5th-7th, 2019 at Wesleyan.

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DataFest at Wesleyan University — April 5-7, 2019

DataFest is a data analysis competition where students are presented with a large, complex, surprise data set and work over the weekend to explore, analyze, and present their findings.  Teams of 3-5 students work together and compete against other teams. This year we are inviting teams from Wesleyan University, Yale, Conn College, Trinity College, UConn, and Bentley University.

Cash prizes will be awarded for the teams that impress the judges the most.

We will be in touch next semester with registration information.

We would like to thank everyone for coming out to DataFest 2018!

A special thanks to all of the judges, the supporting faculty from our participating schools, and to the industry/academic professionals who were able to devote time in helping students over the weekend.

Presentations and slides will be posted in May when all DataFest events are complete.

We hope to see you all for DataFest 2019!

(Photo Credit for all above pictures: Caroline Kravitz ’19)

Congratulations to the 3 teams who took home prizes:

• Best Business Insight (Team AsuperNOVA, Yale): Dawn Chen, James Diao, Sarah Wagner, Gloria Wu, Cathy Xue

• Best User Insight (Team Q(u)ac(ks), Wesleyan): Tiffany Coons, Frederick Corpuz, Kelly Jamrog, Carlo Medina

• Best Data Integration (Team 3squRls, UConn): Adam Busa, Aleya Hafex, Thomas Kennon

Thanks to our esteemed judging panel:

• Agbon Edomwonyi, Data Scientist, City of Newark
• Rich Anziano, Global Head of Statistics, Pfizer
• Melissa Mischell, Data Scientist, CKM Advisors
• Ofer Harel, Statistics Professor, UConn

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DataFest at Wesleyan University — April 6-8, 2018

DataFest is a data analysis competition where students are presented with a large, complex, surprise data set and work over the weekend to explore, analyze, and present their findings.  Teams of 3-5 students work together and compete against other teams. This year we are inviting teams from Wesleyan University, Yale, Conn College, Trinity College, UConn, and Bentley University.

Cash prizes will be awarded for the teams that impress the judges the most.

We will be in touch next semester with registration information.

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, Benjamin Draves, Tiger Huang

Best Innovation
Team: Data Baes (Wesleyan University)
Tiffany Coons, Jack Gorman, Joli Holmes, Asie Makarova

Best in Show
Team: Anscombe’s Quartet (Yale University)
Valerie Chen, James Diao, Alan Liu, Cameron Yick