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Competitive Data Science at Michigan
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MDST’s Site hosts information about all of our active projects, meeting times and dates, tutorial recordings, and a comprehensive list of data science resources.
The Michigan Data Science Team (MDST) is a competitive collegiate data science team at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Together, we compete against professional and amateur data scientists from around the world in online prediction challenges.
Competitive data science has become increasingly prominent in the past decade with the immense popularity of high-profile competitions such as The Netflix Prize. Now, online venues such as Kaggle, DrivenData, and Quantopian, among others, provide platforms for data scientists around the world to make impactful contributions to a huge variety of prediction problems while competing for cash prizes. Previous competitions have explored prediction problems in healthcare, particle physics, finance, and countless other domains, and have involved many types of structured and unstructured data.
We are an organization at the University of Michigan in MIDAS that is looking for dedicated students who are interested in taking part in data science competitions. Ideally, students will have a strong background in computer science, mathematics, and statistics, but all students are welcome to participate. We will be meeting on a weekly basis throughout the year, where students can share strategies and give tutorials. Anyone is welcome to attend these meetings! For your hard work and dedication, we will be offering internal prizes to the students who achieve the highest performance on our prediction challenges.
Past Projects
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…
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…
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.…
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…
MDST gratefully acknowledges the support of DataCamp.
Current Posts
A paper by members and faculty leaders of the Michigan Data Science Team (co-authors: Jacob Abernethy, Alex Chojnacki, Arya Farahi, Eric Schwartz, and Jared Webb) won the Best Student Paper…
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…
