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| Winning team: Dutchess Community College, The State University of New York undergrads Jacob Leggiero, Lucas Pfeifer, David Venuto, and Sophia Lopez (left to right) recently was awarded the prize "Best Use of Outside Data" in the Data Analysis Competition at DataFest@Vassar |
by Henry Mendoza Rivera| April 8, 2023
The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. Since 2021, This event has been organized annually in Poughkeepsie, New York, by Vassar College. It is the first time that Dutchess Community College has participated.
This year's contest was held over a single weekend, from March 31 to June 2. During that time, 10 teams of between 3-5 students did intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation to answer questions given by a National USA institution. Students were given several CSV files, some containing around 400,000 observations. Each team was allowed 7 minutes and some slides to impress a panel of judges. Prizes were given for Best in Show, Best Visualization, and Best Use of External Data. DCC Tidyverse was awarded the prize "Best Use of External Data."
Dutchess Community College participated with two other teams who did a great job: DCC ggplot2 (Kalegnon Dogba-Gobehi and Garrett Oles), and DCC Tibbles (Jason Ashong and Kamari McKechnie). All students participating in this event are members of The Dutches Community College Student Chapter ASA, State University of New York.
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| DCC Tibbles team: Dutchess Community College, The State University of New York undergrads
Jason Ashong and Kamari McKechnie (left to right).
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DCC ggplot2 team: Dutchess Community College, The State University of New York undergrads Kalegnon Dogba-Gobehi and Garrett Oles (left to right). |
DCC teams: Dutchess Community College, The State University of New York. Henry Mendoza Rivera (DCC Team leader, Faculty Advisor of the student chapter, and professor of the Math and Computer Science Department), Kalegnon Dogba-Gobehi, Barbara Dolanksy (Faculty of the Math and Computer Science Department), Kamari McKechnie (president of the Student Chapter), Jason Ashong, Lucas Pfeifer, David Venuto, Sophia Lopez, Garrett Oles, and Jacob Leggiero (left to right). |
Read about the event: https://pages.vassar.edu/datafest/
Thanks to the VP of instruction and learning, Dr. Raymond M Huston, the Math and Computer Science Department chair PJ Darcy, and the government of Dutchess Community College for supporting this participation.
Congratulations to all our Dutchess students who participated in the DataFest 2023 @ Vassar.
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