2022 Awards Announcement
The judging panel consisted of 21 statisticians and data scientists from academia, industry, and government. They were uniformly impressed with both the quality of the analyses and the presentations of them.
Many teams were worthy of prizes and mentions. Of these, the final panel of judges made special note of:
The Don Ylvisaker Best Insight Award
The Data Dudes
Ryan Kien, Roger Wilson, Kason Ancelin, Daichi Sakai
For the use of textual analysis to form interest-level groups and the analysis of their game playing.
The Don Ylvisaker Best Insight Award (Honorable Mention)
Team Cecil Separated Values
Simon Zhang, Saatvik Kher, Xuehuai He
For their insight into how players rank characters and who causes players to make bad short-term decisions.
Best Use of Statistical Models
Team Standard Deviants
Avishek Ghosh, Megan Ma, Shiyu Murashima, Brandon Louie, Jarod Ngo
For their use of models to categorize player’s total skill trajectories and analysis of player behaviors.
Best Use of Statistical Models (Honorable Mention)
Team Chirp
Alan Zhou and Aditya Bhalla
For the use of a clarifying cluster model to describe how different players play. The model enabled a decomposition of the data into informative clusters and facilitated further data analysis.
Best Visualization
Team ofcdata
Keying Zhang, Shixian Wang, Victor Xu, Vivian Pan, Wenqian Luo
For an outstanding and clearly visualized analysis of game playing results and the relationship between in-game choices and real-life choices.
Best Visualization (Honorable Mention)
Team Data Dive
Ellen Wei, Prateik Sinha, Olivia Wang, Yuetong Li, Anvesha Dutta
For their clear visualizations and well written presentation of how players change overtime and what types of players there are.
Judge’s Choice Prize
Team Sine of the Times
Sajaa Ahmad, Samira Ahmed, Merve Dumlu, Rithika Reddy, and Jeffrey Yang
For their overall analysis of reduced attention from repeated decision making that studied the impact of decision fatigue and brought in psychological theory.