2nd Annual Purdue Statistics branch of ASA DataFest

Schedule:

• Friday, April 1, 2016
  1. Dinner in SC 239: 5:30 PM in SC 239
  2. Introduction to the ASA DataFest: 5:45 PM in SC 239
  3. Web Streaming / About the Data / Kickoff: 6:00 PM in SC 239
  4. SC computer labs (SC 179, 183, 189) will be open for teams until 11 PM
• Saturday, April 2, 2016
  1. SC building and computer labs (SC 179, 183, 189) open at 8 AM
  2. Breakfast: 8:30 AM
  3. Lunch: 12:30 PM
  4. Dinner: 6:00 PM
  5. SC building and computer labs (SC 179, 183, 189) close at 11 PM
• Sunday, April 3, 2016
  1. SC building and computer labs (SC 179, 183, 189) open at 11 AM
  2. Lunch: 12:30 PM
  3. End of the Competition: 3 PM
  4. Presentations: 3 PM to 4:30 PM in SC 239
  5. Judging: 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM in SC 239
  6. Awards: 5:00 PM in SC 239

Teams

• Team A: (Baes n statistics) James Moon, Brian French, Kent Gauen, Karan Samel, Alan Min
• Team B: (The Big O's) Sameer Manchanda, Mikaela Meyer, Will Pierce, Jack VanSchaik, Michael Dalrymple
• Team C: Kristen Mori, Thomas Rotter, Richard Gorbett, Emily Damone, Katie Lothrop
• Team D: (OLDSTAT) Yi Zheng, Yue Zhang, Junyu Xiong, Zhenyan Lin, Tian Qiu
• Team E: (Finding Alpha) Brendan Ryder, Maximilian Montano, Tyler Preston
• Team F: (LOG) Lefei Zhang, Shuyi Yang, Wan Jiang, Yiyi Chen, Wentai Cui
• Team G: Isaac Tat, Madi Denning, Aaron Brehm, Teresa Kennelly
• Team H: (2b or not 2b) Kush Rustagi, Abhijeet Gaurav, Jaideep Juneja, Shreyaansh Bassi, Yash Shiroya
• Team I: (Pickle) Hantao Wu, Ningzhu Yang, Tianyu Zhang, Mengying Yang, Yao Tang
• Team J: (Soy Sauce) He Huang, Sixuan Wu, Siqi Wang, Anqi Wang, Tianrui Liu
• Team K: (The Studious Digijocks) Pradeep Kumar Lam, Shubam Rastogi, Aditya Giridhar, Pradyuman Vig, Tiger Cheng
• Team L: (The Old Timers) Patrick Gallagher, Lake Yoke, Brian Kidd
• Team M: (Stats Avengers) Xiaofei Zhang
• Team N: (Techmate) Grady Smith, Anand Balar, Kimberly Dsilva
• Team O: Yunrui Li, Wenzhong Han, Minjie Qian, Ming-En Lee, Tong Gao
• Team P: (Multivac) Booker Smith
• Team Q: (Naive Bayes) Ashish Malik, Kanishka Misra, Patricia Chun
• Team R: (Loading...) Chuxuan Chen, Ye Chen, Sicheng Hao, Di Liu, Yusen Zhang
• Team S: (The calculators) Kavya Ravi Gowda, Nabila Reza, Qin Dong, Kunal Goyal, Mrudul Anil Harwani

Awards and Judging

• Awards for:
  • Best In Show (tie among two teams): Baes n statistics, and LOG
  • Best Visualization: none
  • Best Use of Outside Data: The calculators
  • Honorable mentions: The Big O's; Team C; OLDSTAT; Team G; Soy Sauce; The Old Timers; Team O; Loading
• Judges:
  • Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil (graduate student)
  • Will Eagan (graduate student)
  • Barret Schloerke (graduate student)
  • Dr. Donna LaLonde (Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach at the American Statistical Association)

The 2016 ASA DataFest at Purdue is generously co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association, Google, and the National Science Foundation.


This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1246818. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.