Over ten TEAMS with forty-four students participating in the second annual Hawkeye Datathon on November 17, 2024!
Congratulations students for participating!
List of Winners:
Hawkeye Datathon Champion, "GAM Guys": Bryer Cashman, Dante Verastegui, Connor Curtis
Best Presentation, "Python": Adam Zabner, Hafsa Javed, Yash Vora, Wylan Gao
Best Data Visualization: Krit Petrachaianan, Scott Cleven, Devin Spolsdoff, Jacob Seedorff
Runner Up, PredictEd": Jing Tu, Hong Chen
Raffle Winner: Adam Zabner
-From Dr. Kate Ralston, one of the Judges of the Hawkeye Datathon. Kate is the Director of Data Analytics, Enrollment Management, The University of Iowa"
"I wanted to say a huge thank you to you for inviting me to be a part of this year’s datathon. I didn’t know what to expect and there is generally a lot of reservation in the admissions world about doing this for a lot of reasons. However, I found this to be a great learning experience to both me and the students.
I was so infinitely impressed by the quality of work the students demonstrated yesterday! I don’t mean only the analytical side: their understanding of the coding and the model building part, I mean the overall thoughtful approach they took to the problem at hand, the business need, and the peculiarities of the data available to them. It was wonderful to see how innovative some of the teams were in their approach to maximizing the information available in the dataset, handling the missingness and creating new variables.
It was a great experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of it. Thank you for your partnership and for helping the students become such skillful, mindful, and intentional professionals.
Teams are:
Python
The GAM Guys
Summit Ridge Dropouts
Machine Learning Masterminds
The Bayes Baes
Temporal Titans
SuperModels
PredictEd
Dallas Cowboys
DataMinds
Spark
