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Interested in ways data science can help support societal impact? 🌎

Curious about how real-world data practitioners think about exploring and visualizing data? 🤔

Excited by free food and prize money? 🤑

The Harvey Mudd College Innovation Accelerator Laboratory for Data Science for Social Impact (DSSI) is hosting our second annual student datathon! Students can register in teams of two to three to work on exploring and visualizing trends in global health, population and nutrition. The two teams judged to have the most compelling results at the end of the day will receive a cash prize of $100/teammate. The only experience expected is some kind of coding up of data visualization. If you’ve ever made a plot in Python or R, you’re good to go. The dataset is new this year, so participants in last year’s datathon are welcome to participate again.

Program

🧠 10 a.m.–12:10 p.m.  Talks from awesome data science experts
📊 1–5 p.m.  An afternoon of data "hacking" and exploration, with support available from a few of your HMC DSSI faculty
🦚 5–7 p.m.  A chance to share your findings over a buffet dinner and celebrate the prize-winners!
🌮 Meals throughout the day: breakfast (9 a.m.), lunch (12:10 p.m.) and dinner (5 p.m.)

Don't wait! Find a team and register today. For more information, email our team at dssi-datathon-l@g.hmc.edu.

Your DSSI Datathon Team,
Professors Lynn Kirabo, Haydee Lindo and Susan Martonosi