2017 ASA DataFestTM Results

A copy of the 8 winning presentations is available here. Individual presentations can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding team name. Teams showcased their work to other competitors and judges. A winning team was chosen in each category. The photographs taken at this event are available here and some are in a slideshow on the homepage of this site.

Best Insight

Winner: Code Name: Kids Next Door [Connor Hennen (Statistics), Casey Bauer (Economics), Adam Bronwell (Cognitive Science), Ethan Blank (Cognitive Science), Andrew Musk (Computer Science)]

Honorable Mention: Stats EEveelution [Sophie Ringle, Kristine Vo, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Saba Paya, Caitlin Shener]

Best use of External Data

Winner: 90th Percentile [Donjo Lau, Juan Mendoza, James Wilson, Ignat Kulinka, Daniel Halteh (all Statistics majors)]

Honorable Mention: Infinity [Zihan Wang (Statistics), Haoyu Jiang (Statistics), Kristy Lu (Math), Nora Xu (Statistics), Haozhuo Huang (Math)]

Best Visualization

Winner: Sounds Logit [Daniel D. Leybzon (Statistics), Anna Hubel (Statistics), Conor D’Arcy (Statistics), Alibek Danyalov (Math), Jaume De Dios Pont (Math)]

Honorable Mention: Dadddyyy [Eric Chuu (Math), Simon Hua (Statistics), Lisa Cheng (Statistics), Jack Wu (Statistics), Ashwin Ayyasamy (Statistics)]

Judge’s Choice Awards

Bae’s Rule [Adam Starr, Jeff Carney, Hyeong Shin (all from Pomona College)]

Data Dragons [Ritvik Kharkar (Math), Tyson Ni (Statistics), Jenny Hu (Economics), Pashmeen Kaur (Economics), Grace Ku (Math)]

Finalists

Black Swan [Brian Hsu, Timothy Hinh, Ezra Shih, Hailey Ni, Elena Zhang]

The miners [Zizhang Wang, Qianying Huang, Jiurui Tang, Shuoyi Wei, Jiageng Liu]

Blue Ice Cream [Qiang Fei, Xie He, Zhaofeng Tong, Weiming Chen, Zheqin Li]

Data Dawgz [Yi Ai Chen, Parker Mansfield, Don Lee, Yixin Zhang, Sid Narayan]