Thank you and congratulations to all who participated in this year’s DataFest! Students, you should be proud of the perseverance and creativity that you demonstrated this weekend that resulted in some insightful presentations. As always, our judges had a tough task, but awarded prizes to:
The Data Trio (Meron Kebede, Sara Neequaye, and Ezekiel Ekanem) for Best Overall Analysis
Team Null (Samip Paudel, Alex Teabo, and Tung Nguyen) for Best Data Visualization
Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems (David Caldas and Oscar Blanco) for Best Use of Outside Data
We also thank all of our consultants, judges, and sponsors for helping to make the weekend happen. We look forward to welcoming everyone back for DataFest 2026 @ Vassar!
DataFest @ Vassar 2025: Friday, April 11 – Sunday, April 13, 2025!
Registration is now available on the registration page. There is no cost to participate!
If you have a team (2-5 members), then you can use the team registration form. Otherwise, fill out the individual registration form and we will put you on a team.
Thank you and congratulations to all who participated in this year’s DataFest! Students, you should be proud of the perseverance and creativity that you demonstrated this weekend that resulted in some insightful presentations. As always, our judges had a tough task, but awarded prizes to:
Team 87 (Deanna Chun, Isaac Rudnick, Sam Shelly, Alex Teabo, Leo Valenti) for Best Overall Analysis
The Data Table of CAMA-lot (Axel Estrada, Anders Hansen, Meredith Hillier, Caitlin Gong) for Best Data Visualization
Team Blank (Elta Bajrami, Boxiong Du, Caroline Klein, Roman Shrestha, Tanish Pradhan Wong Ah Sui) for Best Use of Outside Data
We also thank all of our consultants, judges, and sponsors for helping to make the weekend happen. We look forward to welcoming everyone back for DataFest 2025 @ Vassar!
Please visit the registration page to register by Friday March 1, 2024. Note that you can register either with a team of 2–5 participants (all participants must register) or as an individual and be placed with a team.
Save the Date for DataFest @ Vassar 2024: Friday, April 5 – Sunday, April 7, 2024!
Check this site again in the spring for more details and registration links, but for now, save that weekend and start planning your teams (2-5 members)!
DataFest 2023 @ Vassar Group PictureTeam Name, Winners of Best Overall Analysis
Congratulations to all DataFest 2023 @ Vassar participants on a great showing in this year’s competition! After a weekend of data wrangling, cleaning, visualization, contextualization, and analysis, we saw some impressive presentations from our 10 teams on Sunday afternoon. Everyone should be very proud of their work.
The judges had a tough decision, but awarded our three prizes to:
Team Name (yes, that’s their team name!) for Best Overall Analysis: Steven Wu, Luke Adams, Naveen Malik, Victor Zhang, and Brandon Carido
Team Alpha for Best Data Visualization: Isaac Rudnick, Joshua Kim, and Saurav Ghimire
Team DCC Tydiverse for Best Use of Outside Data: David Venuto, Sophia Lopez, Lucas Pfeifer, and Jacob Leggiero
Thanks again to all of our consultants, judges, volunteers, and, most of all, participants! We hope to see you back next spring for DataFest 2024 @ Vassar!
Please visit the registration page to register by March 3, 2023. Note that you can register either with a team of 2–5 participants (all participants must register) or as an individual and be placed with a team.
Registration is limited to 80 participants, so don’t delay!