Welcome to Columbia Statistics Club (CSC) DataFest sponsored by American Statistical Association (ASA)

Note:

We ask all participants to not make public the dataset until the end of May as there are other schools also having DataFest competitions.

DataSet located in

/data

DataSet variable definitions in

/resource

Colummbia Statistics Club logo in

/figures

The Spring 2018’s dataset comes from ASA Datafest event.

Competition Judges:

Prof. Tian Zheng, Associate Director for Education, Data Science Institute at Columbia University Mr. Lucas Lau, Director, Protiviti Dr. Ke Sang, Data Scientist, Indeed.com

Agenda

Friday Night (4/6):

6:00pm – 6:15pm:

Introduction to the DataFest

6:15pm – 6:45pm:

Tutorial by Mr. Ke Shen. (Data Scientist from Jet.com

6:45pm – 7:10pm:

Introduction to the Datasets and requirements

7:10pm – 9:00pm:

Group forming

Saturday (4/7):

9:00am – 4:00pm:

Project preparation

Sunday(4/8):

9:00am – 2:00pm:

Time for group work

2:30pm – 4:00pm:

Presentation

4:30pm – 5:00pm:

Evaluation from judges