DataFest Winners


Gold: πŸ₯‡

Silver: πŸ₯ˆ

Honourable Mention: πŸ₯‰

Place Award Category Team Members Team Name Comments
πŸ₯‡ Best in show Shirley Wang, Eva Huang Shirley Eva Excellent visualisation, modelling and scope. All around really professionally and thoughtfully done.
πŸ₯ˆ Best in show Amar Dholakia, Joshua Hug, Rachael Jaffe, Wendi Qu Bayes Gang Thoughfully addressed an important topic, set a good scope and produced an excellent dashboard that showed the story of their investigation.
πŸ₯‡ Best presentation (non-dashboard) Ariyo Vahdat, Nicole Palmero, Luis Vargas, Wesley Zou The Outliers Excellent video presentation, demonstrating team wide strengths and supported with an clear and consise slide deck
πŸ₯‡ Best presentation (dashboard based) Kevin Zhengkai Fu, Zhuyi Huang, Nayan Saxena, Stephen Shannon KZNS Excllent dashboard, with a very professional video and great choice of topic
πŸ₯ˆ Best presentation (dashboard based) Daniela Lopez Loncar, Krisha Mansukhani, Rhamel Roomes-Delpeache, Samantha Cheung Azeban Insightfully wove the context around the plots in their dashbaord, told a good story with their exploration and had an important and interesting question.
πŸ₯‡ Most creative dataset/topic Gloria Hou, Jonathan Li, Tina Yang, Aliraza Nagamia Pluto to the Moon Wove data from a range of sources, including surveys, news articles and Google Trends and used appropriate tools to approach a really important and interesting topic and explained it all in a very professional video
πŸ₯ˆ Most creative dataset/topic Nichole Feghali, Verna Maullon , Shruthi Vaidyanathan Funky Cats and their Fiesty Stats Demonstrated their learning about getting their data, as well as choosing a really interesting topic and scope
πŸ₯‡ Best Insights Ka Chun Mo, Edmund Lo, Jia Yuan Liu, Boyu Zhu Intercontinental Combined a range of appropriate data sources to create a useful metric and derive meaningful insights about human behaviour.
πŸ₯‰ Honourable Mention Xiaomeng Lu, Tu Wu , Yingshi Wang, Jiawei Xu A Team For engaging the viewer in the modelling process decisions through an interactive dashboard
πŸ₯‰ Honourable Mention Yuchen Wang, Tingfeng Xia, Gongyi Shi , Chen Ding Team Zeroloss For contextualising time series data with world events (and a cool word cloud)
πŸ₯‰ Honourable Mention Dawei Dong, Ting Wang Quantum Statistics For making sure we don’t make mistakes in our stock trades (comparing stock prices for Zoom Video Communications and Zoom Tech, only one of which is the Zoom we’re calling our friends on)
πŸ₯‰ Honourable Mention Xinyi Ji, Cong Wei, Jincheng Leng, Shuangzhuo Li Lies Damnded Lies and Statistics For a really fun video about an interesting topic.