April 9, 2017

At 3:30 PM this past Sunday, Miami University’s DataFest top winning teams were announced. This announcement came after student teams spent nearly 48 hours working with 2 gigabytes of data to derive insight.

Like last year, the competition had zero percent attrition; all 21 eligible teams submitted their findings in a written document by Sunday morning. The winning teams made it through all three rounds of judging, including a white paper, semi-final and final presentations. Cash prizes were awarded for first ($1000), second ($750), and third ($500) place.

1st Place- We R 100% Confident: Adam Levitt, Vincent Tong, Ryan Wiedwald, Seth Levitt, and Chris Paxton

2nd Place- BGSU - C: Melissa Dureiko, Monica Matticoli, and Sarah Hercules

3rd Place - Data Scrubs...the SQL: Katherine Shockey, Ben Smith, Bob Krueger, Robert Garrett, and Bri Clements