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DataFest 2021

The Second annual ASA DataFest at the University of Notre Dame hosted sixteen teams, comprised of a total of 61 students, between March 26th and March 28th 2021.  Due to covid restrictions on Notre Dame's campus, this event was held remotely.

​For this competition the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety Center was interested in discovering and identifying patterns of drug use, with particular attention paid to identifying misuse. These could include patterns that might describe demographic profiles within a given category of drug or combinations of drugs that frequently appear together. One goal they were keen to achieve with the data was to predict future drug misuse cases. The data sets came from participants who responded to an on-line request and were paid to participate.

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Team Fratres as a Human Bar Graph

Volunteers

A very big thank you to all people that helped make DataFest 2021 at Notre Dame successful!  Our mentors and judges included

Senior Director of Decision Support, Children's Mercy Hospital

Visiting Assistant Professor,

The University of Notre Dame

Senior Business Analyst, AT&T and student in Notre Dame's Online Masters in Data Science

Pharmacy Intern, CVS; Pharm D Candidate, UNC Eschelman School of Parmacy​

Vice President, Analytics, QL2 Software

Director, AT&T and student in Notre Dame's Online Masters in Data Science

Data Scientist and PhD Student, The University of Notre Dame

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The support staff that helped make all of the logistics possible

Awards

Best Insight:
Data Pest

Luke Dolan

Gavin Dooley

Ryan Elkins

William Kim

Zhipu Zhao

Best Use of External Data:
Spinning Windows
Best Visualization:
Fratres

William Murray

Nathan Shemwell

Kevin Weiss

Matthew Zilligen

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