RIT to Host National Data Hackathon for Undergrads

Campus Technology: The Rochester Institute of Technology will host DataFest, a national undergraduate data hackathon, for the second consecutive year later this week.

Sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the competition asks teams of students from any major and at any point in their data science education "to tackle what's probably the richest, most complex dataset you've seen so far provided by a real-life organization," according to information on the RIT DataFest site. Teams will get 48 hours April 13-15 to use the data to find a solution to a real-world problem.

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