Students from all over Pennsylvania gathered at Villanova University this past Friday to kick of the 2019 DataFest- Philadelphia.
What is DataFest: DataFest brings together the data science community and undergraduate students by putting together a weekend long hackathon! Students from universities break up into groups and are all given the same data sets to analyze. Consultants ranging from statisticians to visualization and analytics experts are also there to help the students analyze and pull together their findings. After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges. Prizes are given for Best in Show, Best Visualization, and Best Use of External Data.
The Qlik Academic Program was present and helped many of the students who decided use Qlik as their analysis and visualization tool! Many of them took advantage of building easy Qlik Sense charts and they even used Qlik's storytelling function to deliver their presentations!
Universities in attendance included Villanova, Penn State, Bucknell and many more!
For access to software and resources, students and professors can join the program by visiting qlik.com/AcademicProgram
Stay tuned for more pictures and winner information!
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