2021 NYU Love Data Week Datathon

Overall Categories

Most Reusable: this award goes to the team with the most descriptive workflow, documentation, and scripts which can be re-run on another system easily.

The winning team is: team Haagen Das! We congratulate the team members: Rahul Das Bharadwaj, Forzana Rime, Justin Zhang, and Will Ang. You will be receiving free credits for Google Cloud Platform and a recommendation from NYU Data Services.

Clearest Visualization: this award goes to the team who created visualizations with the clearest intention, no extraneous information, and understandable aesthetics.

The winning team is: the Matrix! We congratulate the team members: Vincent Xu, Kelly Qi, Robin Zhao, and Kevin Dai. You will be receiving 1-2 hour personal, customized workshop from Data Services on a topic of your choosing.

Team Spirit Award: this award goes to the team that has the most regular and meaningful engagement with the community, and has earned the most Team Spirit points.

The winning team is: Data Dragons! We congratulate the team members: Kenneth Ding, Tina Lai, Fernando Rodriguez, Parthvi Bhutani, and Laurel Xiang. You will receive a certificate as well as an opportunity to have a 1:1 meeting with anyone from your choosing in our contacts (faculty, administrator, etc.).

Per-track awards

The following track-specific awards were sponsored by L2 Political and ProQuest, who also chose to present additional "second-place" awards to their track of interest!

First Place

The winners will receive $50 each as well as priority access to NYU's High Performance Computing infrastructure, and a recommendation from NYU Data Services.

Stepping Through History - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: NewsDiggers! We congratulate the team members: Nick Wu, Amy Zhu, Noah Kurrack, Zixiao Chen, and Hui Wen.

Helping the NYU Community - L2 Political Extracts: the Data Dragons! We congratulate the team members: Kenneth Ding, Tina Lai, Fernando Rodriguez, Parthvi Bhutani, and Laurel Xiang.

Mapping Climatological Futures - India Meteorological Data: The Matrix! We congratulate the team members: Vincent Xu, Kelly Qi, Robin Zhao, and Kevin Dai.

Second Place

The winners will receive $50 each.

Stepping Through History - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: team Bonkers! We congratulate the team members: Kyle Ma, Esther Wu, Akshit Modi, Bernice Wu, and Riya Gupta.

Helping the NYU Community - L2 Political Extracts: Lovers of Data! We congratulate the team members: Eliot Brown, Cezar Fernandes, Afnan Haq, and Saahil Chamdia.