Summer 2022 Data Science Week - A recap

Sharing Data Science Innovation

Martina Ivich Jijon

September 26, 2022

Recap

The week started with workshops in data wrangling, modeling and visualizations in order to introduce the various steps involved in data science. Additionally, these workshops supported the competition (datathon) at the end of the week.

This edition of the Datathon was focused on predicting house sale prices with of course the use of real data. We are happy to say there were 28 staff and students participating in the Data Science Week, and 20 new members of the Data Science Community.

Datathon

We are extremely pleased to announce that this editions winner got the best overall prediction out of the 3 editions so far! All three winning teams received a weeks’ supply of assorted chocolate, sweets, and gummy bears.

All the winning teams

1st place

TEAM 1 composed of Jean Paul Sebastiaan Piest, Bhinawa Putra Raja, Martijn Ma and Bart Lesschen. Obtained the best predictions, and went home with the coveted BDSi Data Science Trophy.

The winning team (Team 1) posing with the BDSi Data Science Trophy

Their slides are available for download here.

2nd place

Team 8 composed of Iris ten Klooster and Yin Qu.

3rd place

Team 6 formed by Yasin Fahmy, Elvin Khoirun Nisa, and Katerina Mityurova.

Missed the Data Science Week?

Fear not! There will be another Data Science Week 6th-13th of March 2023, with an all new dataset and task. In the mean time, you can view the slides for the workshops on our website, and compete for the best predictions on the same problem on kaggle.com.

Keep in touch

We would like to thank all participants for their support. We hope you enjoyed this week as much as we did and to see you on the next Data Science Week happening on March 6-13, 2023!

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Contact

Feel free to contact us at bdsi@utwente.nl for more information.