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WiDS Datathon 2024 Challenge #1 Winners

Working with the WiDS Datathon dataset over the past week has been a thrilling exercise. This dataset presents an opportunity to learn about interesting and real-world modeling challenges, and is different from other curated datasets in textbooks and classic machine learning exercises. For that reason, I discuss some of the challenges you may experience around missing data, multicollinearity and linear/ nonlinear approaches. I will also provide resources to help you on these topics.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon, Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Three ways to enrich your data science career with the WiDS Datathon 2024 experience

Working with the WiDS Datathon dataset over the past week has been a thrilling exercise. This dataset presents an opportunity to learn about interesting and real-world modeling challenges, and is different from other curated datasets in textbooks and classic machine learning exercises. For that reason, I discuss some of the challenges you may experience around missing data, multicollinearity and linear/ nonlinear approaches. I will also provide resources to help you on these topics.

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In Data Wrangling, Datathon

Triple Negative Breast Cancer Datathon – A Tutorial

Working with the WiDS Datathon dataset over the past week has been a thrilling exercise. This dataset presents an opportunity to learn about interesting and real-world modeling challenges, and is different from other curated datasets in textbooks and classic machine learning exercises. For that reason, I discuss some of the challenges you may experience around missing data, multicollinearity and linear/ nonlinear approaches. I will also provide resources to help you on these topics.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon

WiDS Datathon 2022 Sparks Collaboration, Learning, and New Friendships

Side by side portraits of Pravallika Myeni and Anissa Amziani

Two women on different sides of world who had never participated in a Kaggle competition came together as a team to compete in the WiDS Datathon 2022—leading to new skills, confidence, and a lasting friendship. The datathon goal was to analyze the energy efficiency of buildings. Participants analyzed regional differences in building energy efficiency, creating models to predict building energy consumption, an important first step in understanding how to maximize energy efficiency.

We asked Pravallika Myeni and Anissa Amziani to tell us more about themselves and the experience of working together during the datathon competition.

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In Data Wrangling, Datathon

A Data Scientist’s Deep Dive into the WiDS Datathon

Working with the WiDS Datathon dataset over the past week has been a thrilling exercise. This dataset presents an opportunity to learn about interesting and real-world modeling challenges, and is different from other curated datasets in textbooks and classic machine learning exercises. For that reason, I discuss some of the challenges you may experience around missing data, multicollinearity and linear/ nonlinear approaches. I will also provide resources to help you on these topics.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon

WiDS Datathon Impact 2022

Three of WiDS Datathon participants working on the computer together.

The WiDS Datathon encourages women to hone their data science skills through an annual challenge focused on social impact, bringing people together across borders to collaborate on teams. This year, the datathon was held on Kaggle from January through the end of February, with over 4,000 participants registered from 95 countries, submitting over 25,000 Kaggle entries. The challenge focused on mitigating the effects of climate change with a focus on energy efficiency, with data provided by partners at Climate Change AI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and MIT Critical Data.

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In Algorithms, Datathon, Domains, Software Design and Engineering

A Beginner’s Tutorial for the WiDS Datathon 2022 challenge

two methodologies that you might consider when deciding how to develop a model.

Climate change is one of the critical challenges facing humanity today. Over the past few years, there have been widespread climate-driven disruptive events such as floods and wildfires. The devastation caused by these events has resulted in an awareness of the urgency of the issue. Indeed, people and governments have started working together in the direction of climate-focused coordinated action. At WiDS, we believe that it will be important for future data scientists to gain familiarity with mathematical and statistical models used to model climate data. For this reason, the focus of the WiDS Datathon this year is a climate-focused challenge: prediction of building energy consumption.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon

First Time Kaggle Participant Team Earns WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Honorary Mention

The WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Award is an opportunity for WiDS Datathon teams to write papers about their research. The papers are judged on their potential for real-world impact, rigor in scientific methodology, and clarity of communication. Team Parameters Patrol from the United States and the United Kingdom with teammates Natalie Pirkola, Elena Barbulescu, Stacy Forsyth and Kate Tereshchenko won an Honorary Mention for their research paper, Feature Engineering to Improve Performance.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon, Domains

Collaborators Who Met During 2021 Datathon Win Excellence in Research Award

Photographs side by side of Maya Tadmor-Saghiv and Pavel Vodolazov

Maya Tadmor-Saghiv and Pavel Vodolazov teamed up to win third place in the 2021 WiDS Datathon and first place for the WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Award for their paper on practices for handling missing data in ICU predictive modeling. They met during the datathon when they decided to join forces and then went on to collaborate on the prize-winning paper: Bridge Over Troubled Data – Practices for Handling Missing Data in Intensive Care Unit Predictive Modeling.

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In Data Science as a Career, Datathon

The 2nd Place Winners of the 2019 WiDS Datathon “Full Fuego” Collaborated Across Countries and Generations

Mother/daughter team Alison Davey/Laura Rico based in Spain and Maria Jimenez-Otero based in the UK collaborated across countries to win second place in the WiDS 2019 Datathon. Alison and Maria, who had met through an online course, both gained confidence and valuable new data science skills as a result of participating and winning the competition.

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