Purdue has coordinated an ASA DataFest event each year since spring 2015.

Teams Competing in 2025 (April 4 - 6, 2025)

  • Team A: (Maverick) Daniel Armeanu
  • Team B: (AAMP) Aaryan Sinha, Aaditya Monga, Prateek Singh, Ayush Guhan, Nikhil Abraham
  • Team C: (A bit of data) Jacob Spoerle, Kevin Potthast
  • Team D: (Burh) Thet Naing Soe, Raj Khera, Rishi Poduval, Sang Hyun Kim
  • Team E: (Unempluzz) Neel Bansal, Hari Harish, Akkshay Sundara Rajan
  • Team F: (Silicon Valley hackathon Ahh) Danica Diva, Eileen Kuo, Elian Rieza, Soham Pradhan, Kevin Liu
  • Team G: (The Mean Squared Errors) Audrey Ward, Bruce Ward, Carl Bravata, Ruiming Xu
  • Team H: (Future Baristas) Chaolin "Benny" Zheng, William Boulton, Sam Guber, Kabir Jain
  • Team I: (pandas in pyjamas) Avi Aggarwal, Matthew Battista, Vishal Bhat, Catherine Gagne, Maria Goffinet
  • Team J: (Snack Overflow) Victoria Jung, Amanda Huang, Nicolas Cortes
  • Team K: (Ctrl Alt Elite) Jakub Omylak, Gabriel Turner
  • Team L: (PandasGoneWild) Atharva Thakur, Sonal Naik
  • Team M: (Hazel) Tran Vo
  • Team N: (unlikely) Mihir Vishindas
  • Team O: (RRWRA) Ujjawal Prasad, Timur Dayanov, Ricky Dong, Rohan Quarve

Schedule

  • Friday, April 4, 2025
    • Introduction to the ASA DataFest / About the Data / Kickoff: 5:00 PM in Burton D. Morgan room 121 (MRGN 121)
    • Open Work Time; can use Burton D. Morgan conference rooms and lobby for working sessions
  • Saturday, April 5, 2025
    • Open Work Time; can use Burton D. Morgan conference rooms and lobby for working sessions
  • Sunday, April 6, 2025
    • Open Work Time; can use Burton D. Morgan conference rooms and lobby for working sessions
    • End of the Competition: 4:30 PM
    • Presentations: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM in Burton D. Morgan room 121 (MRGN 121)
      • 4:30 PM    Team A: (Maverick) Daniel Armeanu
      • 4:35 PM    Team E: (Unempluzz) Neel Bansal, Hari Harish, Akkshay Sundara Rajan
      • 4:40 PM    Team D: (Burh) Thet Naing Soe, Raj Khera, Rishi Poduval, Sang Hyun Kim
      • 4:45 PM    Team C: (A bit of data) Jacob Spoerle, Kevin Potthast
      • 4:50 PM    Team L: (PandasGoneWild) Atharva Thakur, Sonal Naik
      • 4:55 PM    Team G: (The Mean Squared Errors) Audrey Ward, Bruce Ward, Carl Bravata, Ruiming Xu
      • 5:00 PM    Team F: (Silicon Valley hackathon Ahh) Danica Diva, Eileen Kuo, Elian Rieza, Soham Pradhan, Kevin Liu
      • 5:05 PM    Team B: (AAMP) Aaryan Sinha, Aaditya Monga, Prateek Singh, Ayush Guhan, Nikhil Abraham
      • 5:10 PM    Team K: (Ctrl Alt Elite) Jakub Omylak, Gabriel Turner
      • 5:15 PM    Team I: (pandas in pyjamas) Avi Aggarwal, Matthew Battista, Vishal Bhat, Catherine Gagne, Maria Goffinet
      • 5:20 PM    Team J: (Snack Overflow) Victoria Jung, Amanda Huang, Nicolas Cortes
      • 5:25 PM    Team H: (Future Baristas) Chaolin "Benny" Zheng, William Boulton, Sam Guber, Kabir Jain
    • (Private) Discussion among the judges: 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
    • Awards: 6:00 PM in Burton D. Morgan room 121 (MRGN 121)

Awards and Judging in 2025

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show (tie): Burh, and pandas in pyjamas
    • Best Visualization: Maverick
    • Best Use of Outside Data: Unempluzz
    • Honorable Mention for Best Business Advice: Ctrl Alt Elite
    • Honorable Mention for Best Methodology: A bit of data
    • Honorable Mention for Most Creative: Silicon Valley hackathon Ahh
  • Judges:
    • Dr. Fulya Gokalp Yavuz (Director of Data Science at The Data Mine)
    • Dr. Tugba Kapucu (Visiting Scholar at The Data Mine)
    • Dr. Bowei Xi (Associate Professor of Statistics)
    • Dr. Kiseop Li (Associate Professor of Statistics)
    • Dr. Jianxi Su (Associate Professor of Statistics)
    • Ms. Smarika Singh (M.S. student, Engr, Mgmt and Prof Practice)
    • Mr. Atin Dewan (Ph.D. student, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering)
    • Mr. Sharan Sivakumar (B.S. student, Computer Science)
    • Ms. Simrith Ranjan (B.S. student, Computer Science)
    • Ms. Sameeksha Desai (B.S. student, Computer Science)
    • Ms. Jenna Lusk (B.S. student, Computer Information Technology)
    • Ms. Farahnaz Toosi (M.S. student, Engr, Mgmt and Prof Practice)
    • Ms. Maya Mishra (M.S. student, Engr, Mgmt and Prof Practice)
    • Mr. Saanidhya Jain (B.S. student, Statistics)
    • Mr. Ashwin Venkateswaran (B.S. student, Computer Information Technology)
    • Ms. Deepti Kumaran (B.S. student, Computer Information Technology)
    • Ms. Paridha Talmale (M.S. student, Engr, Mgmt and Prof Practice)
    • Mr. Kyaw Khine "Tom" Linn (B.S. student, Computer Science)
    • Ms. Sanjana Gadaginmath (B.S. student, Computer Science)

Teams Competing in 2024 (April 5 - 7, 2024)

  • Team A: (The Lonely Square Root of Three) Jennie Kang, Yiyuan Zhang, Minrui Lu
  • Team B: (The Data Dazzlers) Audrey Ward, Bruce Ward, Matthew Bevivino, Yoon Kim, Zhening Hu
  • Team C: (stats rats) John Reilly, Advaith Hari, Kaiden Krenek, Ryan Goldfeder, Sam Liu
  • Team D: (Rocky) Joseph Zou, Yichen Hu
  • Team E: (Byte Me) Pramey Kabra, Victoria Donoho
  • Team F: (Blue Cat and Dog) Yahan Kou, Tingyu Yin
  • Team G: (Sleepy Alligator) Ife Ogunbanjo
  • Team H: (cheesecake) Junhyeok Kil, Thet Soe, Raj Khera, Mihir Patil, Sang Hyun Kim
  • Team I: (Team Mesh) Animesh Joshi
  • Team J: (Seal Team One) Nick Schiermeier
  • Team K: (noobs;) Ruba Alobeid, Zachary Hamilton
  • Team L: (Data Dimension) Disha Seth, Neha Gogineni

Awards and Judging in 2024

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: cheesecake
    • Best Visualization: The Data Dazzlers
    • Best Use of Outside Data: cheesecake
    • Honorable Mention for Best Storytelling and Presentation: noobs;
    • Honorable Mention for Best Storytelling and Presentation: The Lonely Square Root of Three
    • Honorable Mention for Best Statistical Analysis: Rocky
    • Honorable Mention for Best Statistical Analysis: Seal Team One
  • Judges:
    • Mr. Ayush Bihani (M.S. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Sam Eschker (Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Juan Guevara (Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Sumeeth Guda (M.S. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Quan Nguyen Hien (M.S. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Ms. Anushka Shah (M.S. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Vinh Nghiem To (M.S. student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)

Teams Competing in 2023 (March 31 - April 2, 2023)

  • Team A: (Insanity) Roshan Sinha
  • Team B: (McKington) Sanjay Anasuri, Abhishek Vemula, Mihir Singh
  • Team C: (stats rats) John Reilly, Ryan Goldfeder, Ethan Garcia, Kaiden Krenek, Advaith Hari
  • Team D: (Boiler Miners) Ju Na Lee, Gargi Koul, Anna Louise Chen, Brian Zhu
  • Team E: (didSomebodySay) Raja Darshini Rajamani, Justin Tjan, Hemming Ma, Celine Wallart, Betsy Varghese
  • Team F: (Data Dream Team) Matthew Bevivino, Bruce Ward, Audrey Ward, Cheyenne Ward, Lin Yingjun
  • Team G: (Epsilon Friends) Joseph Van Valer, Katherina Teodorovich, Truman Mohr, Kaelyn Tai
  • Team H: (SDev) Shreyas Chickerur
  • Team I: (Pyoneers) Matthew McLaren, Zach Davis, Chris Ban, Kyle Kraft, Jay Lee
  • Team J: (Scrum Masters) Dwijen Chawra, Arnav Vyas, Aaryan Dave, Snehal Adabala

Awards and Judging in 2023

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: stats rats
    • Best Visualization: Pyoneers
    • Honorable Mention: Data Dream Team
    • Honorable Mention: didSomebodySay
  • Judges:
    • Dr. Tim Keaton (Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Mr. Evan Li (Graduate Student, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Dr. Jianxi Su (Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University)

Teams Competing in 2022 (March 25-27, 2022)

  • Team A: (The Drop Tables) Maxwell Low, Robert Sego, Bryce Castle
  • Team B: (sudo rm -rf /*) Dhruv Sujatha, Manas Paranjape, Tejas Yalamanchili, Jay Mehta, Visuwanaath Selvam
  • Team C: (The Keyboard Smashers) Adithya Ganesh, Kashyap Subramanian, Gaurab Das, Mihir Ghonge, Aditya Arjun Anibha
  • Team D: (Ball Busters) Pallavi Pati, Anant Misra, Bhavesh Pareek, Samruddhi Tawade, Aayushi Akhouri
  • Team E: (T-spin) Haemi Lee, Jungeun Hwang, Visa Theerapatra Thongdee
  • Team F: (Team"); DROP TABLE Teams;) Eric Burkholder, Eric Yager, Zack Lee, Anton Eschenauer, Ethan Hawk
  • Team G: (Data Trans4mers) Harshini Musku, Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran, Mihika Ghaisas, Rugved Dikay, Shambhavi Adkar
  • Team H: (The Visualizers) Nischay Uppal, Supriya Dixit, Maheep Brar, Joseph Ching, Laura Roach
  • Team I: (DePauw University) Thu Kim Le, Ruiyang Chen, Robin Bista
  • Team J: (Chi-Square) Ayden Bradley Bridges, Zixiao Wang, Vibha Santhoshi Polisetty, Angel Daniel Avila Gonzalez, Pum Khai
  • Team K: (MongoDB is web scale) Daniel Trager, Saad Sharief
  • Team L: (the CURVE) Zhening Hu, Tom Tang, Isiah Black

Awards and Judging in 2022

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: sudo rm -rf /*
      • Honorable Mention: The Keyboard Smashers
    • Best Visualization: Data Trans4mers
    • Best Statistical Analysis: Chi-Square
  • Judges:
    • Mr. Ed Brizendine (Biostatistician, Brizendine Statistical Consulting)
    • Dr. David Corliss (Lead, Industrial Business Analytics and Manager, Data Science Center of Excellence at Stellantis)
    • Dr. Nianqiao (Phyllis) Ju (Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue University)
    • Dr. Mamunur Rashid (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePauw University)

Teams Competing in 2021 (March 26-28, 2021)

  • Team A: (How do I Java) Darsh Mahra, Pranav Hariharane, Manish Kannan
  • Team B: (datathon dudes) Ishika Kamchetty, Shelja Sarin, Rashmi Ananth
  • Team C: (WaterMark) Mezna Alhabshi, Dania Khan, Haris Asir Hasan, Keishi Vannithamby, Meenakshi Ramakrishnan
  • Team D: (Brown Boyz) Nischay Uppal, Avi Patel, Shreyas Chickerur, Aref Malek, Arnob Kazi
  • Team E: (Bit off more than we can chew) Grace Kraus, Gabrielle Kraus, Torin Hylan, Snehith Guntaka, Magdalena Haas
  • Team F: (Hot Plot) Yuke Zhang, Lei Gong, Xiaxin Shen
  • Team G: (3Brown1Blue) Ismail Husain, Erika Meredith, Kanishk Kamalvanshi, Ayush Srivastava
  • Team H: (library(memeR)) Abhay Thakur, Emily Wu, Linh Phan, Abhilash Chandra, Erik Costello

Awards and Judging in 2021

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: WaterMark
    • Best Visualization: Hot Plot
    • Best Use of Outside Data: WaterMark
    • Honorable Mention: Brown Boyz
  • Judges:
    • Mr. Ed Brizendine (Biostatistician, Brizendine Statistical Consulting)
    • (tentative) Dr. Selma Davis (Corn Genome Design Lead at Bayer Crop Science)
    • Dr. Drew Lazar (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University)
    • Dr. Mamunur Rashid (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, DePauw University)

Teams Competing in 2019 (March 29-31, 2019)

  • Team A: Keerthiha Arangarajan, Lavanya Kannan, Krishna Suresh, Prithvi Bhushan
  • Team B: (Error 404 Not Found) Niket Panjwani, Kaushali Patel, Simran Bansal, Pranjali Raturi, Vanshika Agarwal
  • Team C: (Team_Name) Xinxin Zhao, Xinyi Pang, Xinglei Liu, Kaiyang Zhao, Moya Zhu
  • Team D: (The Standard Deviations) Sanjana Rajesh, Siwon Jeong
  • Team E: (We Like Tea-Tests) Logan Bradley-Trietsch, Kali Lacy, Garrett Mulcahy, Jun Kim, Kevin LaMaster
  • Team F: (Visible Confusion) Jitesh Motati, Anudeep Yakkala, Nakul Upadhya, Tuhin Sarkar
  • Team G: (KAJMM) Kendra Lin, Ali Jeffries, Jess Gilbert, Melanie Martinez, Molly Cromer
  • Team H: (woman power) XueChun Wang, Yue Wang
  • Team I: (Oddly Satisfying) Katherine Brinkers, Menna Hassan, Jorgie Harris, Hayley Jordan, Jason Selbo (alt. Zeinab Aly)
  • Team J: (Purdudes) Tony Feng, Yuanqi Cao, Jason Su
  • Team K: (DayDuh) Noah Oller Smith, Taher Dohadwala, Wan Auni Kamilah Abdul Razak, Maggie Steinrauf
  • Team L: (Spicy Uno) Walter Robinson, Aarushi Banerjee, Andy Wang
  • Team M: (Lao Beijing) Hanwen Zhang, Xinyi Tan, Bo Zhang, Yuanchi Wei, Hanwen Gu
  • Team N: (Let's see how this goes) Jacob Bagadiong, Nick Farber, Alex Perry, Ethan Rowe
  • Team O: (The Gauss Guys) Jack Arnold, Nicholas Rosenorn, Rohan Shahani
  • Team P: (Big Data Energy) Aakash Saravanan, Mohamed Bah, Rthvik Raviprakash, Nupur Pokharkar, Sahana Rayan
  • Team Q: (Matlab) Siddharth Srinivasan, Andre Hatushikano, Adam Zurek, Rachit Pasricha, Brandon Hernandez
  • Team R: (The Longshot) Nikhil D'Souza, Brandon Wu, Anthony Stahura, Hugh Bromund, Peyton Williams
  • Team S: (Qube) Weiqing Huang, Qinmin Wang, Hanqing Li
  • Team T: (The Dropouts) Zhengxin Yan, Aneesh Soni, Harris Tariq, Akhil Chinnakotla

Awards and Judging in 2019

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show (tie among two teams): The Longshot, and Qube
      • Honorable Mention: The Gauss Guys, and Team_Name
    • Best Visualization: DayDuh
      • Honorable Mention: We Like Tea-Tests
    • Best Use of Outside Data: Oddly Satisfying
      • Honorable Mention: Lao Beijing
  • Judges:
    • Dr. Bruce Craig (Professor, Purdue Statistics)
    • Mr. Jason Hernacki (Graduate Student, WMU Statistics)
    • Ms. Betsy Hillery (High Performance Computing Services, Purdue)
    • Mr. Ian Kapenga (Faculty Specialist, WMU Statistics)
    • Dr. Jianxi Su (Assistant Professor, Purdue Statistics)

Teams Competing in 2018 (March 23-25, 2018)

  • Team A: (DataPests) Hannah Bredikhin, Chris Bryan, Cynthia Chang, Hope Cullers
  • Team B: (The Learning Is Happening) Elizabeth Bell, Rafael Lovas, Luke Francisco, Tyler Netherly, Simon Langowski
  • Team C: (Data's Not Hot) Tim Park, Cailey Farrell, Meera Haridasa, Tom Leinart, Dylan Martin
  • Team D: (2275) Sijie Cai, Yan Wang, Siyuan Cao
  • Team E: (The Money Ballers) Lingjun Chen, Kai Zhang, Mi Xiong, Zhuoheng Xie, Xi Fan
  • Team F: (The Tide Pod Squad) Namaluba Malawo, Lauren Washington, Anna Poznyak
  • Team G: (Hakuna Matata) Bin Han, Yujie Chen, Zhiyuan Shu
  • Team H: (Richardson McDonald) Theerakorn Prasutchai, Michael Roggenburg, Jeremy Anderson, Daniel Hazeley, Andrew Lentz
  • Team I: (Soul Spartans) Zhenghao Ye, Miaoqi Liu, Yuqing Wu, Yixuan Shi, Xiayu Cai
  • Team J: (The Degrees of Freedom) Logan Bradley-Trietsch, Jun Kim, Hayley Jordan, Forrest Brown, Jinyang Wang
  • Team K: (Why Axis) Hanwen Zhang, Tianjian Ni, Wei Cui, Jianing Chen, Jiasong Wu
  • Team L: (Five Guys) Dongyu Dai, Zichao Wang, Lishu Qu, Anirudha Mondal, Varun Vasudevan Nair
  • Team M: (Meme Dreams for Edgy Teams) Allison Loughner, Randal Freebourn
  • Team N: (Stat, Rattle, and Roll) Julie Puckett

Awards and Judging in 2018

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: Hakuna Matata
      • Honorable Mention: Stat, Rattle, and Roll
    • Best Visualization: 2275
      • Honorable Mention: The Tide Pod Squad
    • Best Use of Outside Data: Soul Spartans
      • Honorable Mention: The Learning Is Happening
  • Judges:
    • Dr. David Corliss (Analytics Architect, Ford Motor Company)
    • Dr. Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil (Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue Statistics)
    • Mr. Will Eagan (graduate student, Purdue Statistics)
    • Mr. Tim Keaton (graduate student, Purdue Statistics)
    • Dr. Jianxi Su (Assistant Professor, Purdue Statistics)

Teams Competing in 2017 (March 31-April 2, 2017)

  • Team A: (EPONA) Wanyi He, Mengran Ma, Yawen Zhang, Yishu Sun, Shijia Zhou
  • Team B: (SSR) Yijia Hao, Juncheng Tang, Ziyu Zhao, Zixuan Liu, Yinuo Pan
  • Team C: (We thought this was DataVest) James Marshall Reber, Jack Good, Michael Smith, Miranda Champion, Simon Langowski
  • Team D: (Team Baye) Prateek Malik, Mike Dalrymple, Mikaela Meyer, Sameer Manchanda, Emily Damone
  • Team E: (R Team is SASy) Andrew Lentz, Justin Hubbard, Surya Gundavarapu, Venkatvarun Mavilla
  • Team F: (STAT-tastic 5) Maggie Christy, Danny Havern, James Brand, Dakota Selburg, Sammy Hansen
  • Team G: (Datasaurous-Rex) Nicole Markley, Elle Tigner, Emma Beck, Zoe Phillips, Erin Tooley
  • Team H: (Stats "R" Us) Jack VanSchaik, Karan Samel, Alan Min, Kent Gauen, Sam Eschker
  • Team I: (Bayesian Frequentists) Aaron Brehm, Kanishka Misra, Andrew Moolenaar
  • Team J: (SBS) Kevin Xia, Anqi Wang, Tianrui Liu, Zhiyuan Shu, Sixuan Wu
  • Team K: (Elder Neighbor Wang) Ziyu Liu, Junbo Wang
  • Team L: (Mystic) Jingyi Wu, Zixuan Zhou, Qihui Feng, Junling Wang, Jiaxin Yu
  • Team M: (STAT MATES) Woosung Kim, Jaeyeon (Eric) Kim, Cole Elam, Lexie Lobo, Xinrui (Michael) Wang
  • Team N: (ecSTATic) Avni Bhalgat, Brittany Griggs, Megan Heinold, Amber Young
  • Team O: (The Stat-Crobats) Peyton Puckett, Julie Puckett, Christina DeSantiago, Allison Loughner, Felix Francisco-Sanchez

Awards and Judging in 2017

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show (tie among two teams): SBS, and The Stat-Crobats
    • Best Visualization: Mystic
    • Best Use of Outside Data: We thought this was DataVest
    • Honorable mentions: ecSTATic, Datasaurous-Rex, Bayesian Frequentists, STAT-tastic 5, R Team is SASy, Stats "R" Us
  • Judges:
    • Kevin Amstutz
    • Dr. Jean-Paul Baldwin (Visiting Assistant Professor & Associate Director of the Center for Analytics and Data Sciences at Miami University)
    • Will Eagan (graduate student)
    • Dr. Thomas Fisher (Assistant Professor of Statistics, Miami University)
    • Dr. Fulya Gokalp Yavuz (Postdoctoral Research Assistant)
    • Dr. Jianxi Su (Assistant Professor of Statistics)

Teams Competing in 2016 (April 1-3, 2016)

  • Team A: (Baes n statistics) James Moon, Brian French, Kent Gauen, Karan Samel, Alan Min
  • Team B: (The Big O's) Sameer Manchanda, Mikaela Meyer, Will Pierce, Jack VanSchaik, Michael Dalrymple
  • Team C: Kristen Mori, Thomas Rotter, Richard Gorbett, Emily Damone, Katie Lothrop
  • Team D: (OLDSTAT) Yi Zheng, Yue Zhang, Junyu Xiong, Zhenyan Lin, Tian Qiu
  • Team E: (Finding Alpha) Brendan Ryder, Maximilian Montano, Tyler Preston
  • Team F: (LOG) Lefei Zhang, Shuyi Yang, Wan Jiang, Yiyi Chen, Wentai Cui
  • Team G: Isaac Tat, Madi Denning, Aaron Brehm, Teresa Kennelly
  • Team H: (2b or not 2b) Kush Rustagi, Abhijeet Gaurav, Jaideep Juneja, Shreyaansh Bassi, Yash Shiroya
  • Team I: (Pickle) Hantao Wu, Ningzhu Yang, Tianyu Zhang, Mengying Yang, Yao Tang
  • Team J: (Soy Sauce) He Huang, Sixuan Wu, Siqi Wang, Anqi Wang, Tianrui Liu
  • Team K: (The Studious Digijocks) Pradeep Kumar Lam, Shubam Rastogi, Aditya Giridhar, Pradyuman Vig, Tiger Cheng
  • Team L: (The Old Timers) Patrick Gallagher, Lake Yoke, Brian Kidd
  • Team M: (Stats Avengers) Xiaofei Zhang
  • Team N: (Techmate) Grady Smith, Anand Balar, Kimberly Dsilva
  • Team O: Yunrui Li, Wenzhong Han, Minjie Qian, Ming-En Lee, Tong Gao
  • Team P: (Multivac) Booker Smith
  • Team Q: (Naive Bayes) Ashish Malik, Kanishka Misra, Patricia Chun
  • Team R: (Loading...) Chuxuan Chen, Ye Chen, Sicheng Hao, Di Liu, Yusen Zhang
  • Team S: (The calculators) Kavya Ravi Gowda, Nabila Reza, Qin Dong, Kunal Goyal, Mrudul Anil Harwani

Awards and Judging in 2016

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show (tie among two teams): Baes n statistics, and LOG
    • Best Visualization: none
    • Best Use of Outside Data: The calculators
    • Honorable mentions: The Big O's; Team C; OLDSTAT; Team G; Soy Sauce; The Old Timers; Team O; Loading
  • Judges:
    • Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil (graduate student)
    • Will Eagan (graduate student)
    • Barret Schloerke (graduate student)
    • Dr. Donna LaLonde (Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach at the American Statistical Association)

Teams Competing in 2015 (March 27-29, 2015)

  • Team A: (B-CLAW) Lake Yoke, Weston Phillips, Christina DeSantiago, Ashley Peterson, Bailey O'Malley
  • Team B: Emily Martin, Christine Ringwald, Jenna Reno
  • Team C: (Team Balloony) Emily Malek, Abigail Vorhies, Abby Johnson, Patrick Gallagher, and Erik Norlin
  • Team D: (The OutlieRs) Christopher Vincent, Peter Boyd, Christine Zhang, Brian Kidd, and Felix Francisco-Sanchez
  • Team E: Manjie Fu and Rei Rutkowski

Awards and Judging in 2015

  • Awards for:
    • Best In Show: Team Balloony
    • Best Visualization: B-CLAW
    • Best Use of Outside Data: The OutlieRs
  • Judges:
    • Jennifer Han (guest)
    • Yusuke Kurihara (guest)
    • Dr. Lingsong Zhang (faculty)
    • Kevin Amstutz (graduate student)
    • Emery Goossens (graduate student)
    • Yiqiang (Ethan) Zheng (graduate student)


The ASA DataFest at Purdue is generously sponsored by the American Statistical Association.