DataFest Winners

Gold: 🥇

Silver: 🥈

Honourable Mention: 🥉

Place	Award Category	Team Members	Team Name	Comments
🥇	Best in show	Shirley Wang, Eva Huang	Shirley Eva	Excellent visualisation, modelling and scope. All around really professionally and thoughtfully done.
🥈	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.
🥇	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
🥇	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
🥈	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.
🥇	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
🥈	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
🥇	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.
🥉	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
🥉	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)
🥉	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)
🥉	Honourable Mention	Xinyi Ji, Cong Wei, Jincheng Leng, Shuangzhuo Li	Lies Damnded Lies and Statistics	For a really fun video about an interesting topic.