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MDST Places in the Parkinson’s Biomarker Challenge

Participants: Junhao Wang, Arya Farahi and Xinlin Song (Challenge 1); Yi-Lun Wu, Chun-Yu Hsiung and Xinlin Song (Challenge 2) Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. Currently, there is no objective test to diagnose PD and the bedside examination by a neurologist remains the most ...

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MDST Competes in the Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition

Authors: Weifeng Hu and Divyansh Saini The Competition We represented the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST) in the Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition hosted by MinneAnalytics in Minnesota. We were provided insurance claims data for people diagnosed with Type-II diabetes. At the novice level, the goal was to use this data to find meaningful patterns in ...

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MDST – NFL Free Agency Value Prediction Competition Kick-Off – Nov. 9, 6pm

In this competition, student teams at the University of Michigan will use historical free agent data to predict the value of new contracts signed in the 2018 free agency period. These predictions will be evaluated against the actual contracts as they are signed. This competition is organized by the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST), in ...

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MDST announces Detroit blight data challenge; organizational meeting Feb. 16

The Michigan Data Science Team and the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS) have partnered with the City of Detroit on a data challenge that seeks to answer the question: How can blight ticket compliance be increased? An organizational meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in EECS 1200. The city ...

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Google, U-M to build digital tools for Flint water crisis

FLINT—A partnership between Google and the University of Michigan’s Flint and Ann Arbor campuses aims to provide a smartphone app and other digital tools to Flint residents and officials to help them manage the ongoing water crisis. The app and other tools will help predict where lead levels will be highest in the city’s water, ...