2025

19 Teams

3 Colleges at Cal Poly + 2 Teams from CSU-Monterey Bay

1 Data Set

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A total of 76 undergraduate students participated in a weekend of visualizing, summarizing, and analyzing data. Students participated from across three colleges including: mostly Statistics & Data Science major in the Bailey College of Science and Technology, a couple of handfuls of Computer Science and Software Engineering majors in the College of Engineering, and a student from Public Health in the School of Liberal Arts. We also welcomed two amazing teams from CSU-Monterey Bay down for the weekend.

Best in Show: (left) Tara Rajagopalan, Barbara Ibrahim, Charlotte Kuebitz, Kaviya Veerasingam

Best Visualization: (left) Ruben Jimenez, Nick Patrick, Alex Yaun, Andrew Martinez (not pictured)

Best Use of Outside Data: (left) Jett Palmer, Kaatje Matthews-vanKoetsveld, Libby Brill, Alea Seifert, Alie Hall

Photos by Alexis Kovacevic

2024

10 Teams

3 Colleges at Cal Poly

1 Data Set

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A total of 39 undergraduate students participated in a weekend of visualizing, summarizing, and analyzing data about an online statistics textbook. Students participated from across three colleges including: mostly Statistics & Data Science major in the Bailey College of Science and Technology, a handful of Computer Science majors in the College of Engineering, and a couple of students completing the Quantitative Concentration from the Orfalea College of Business.

Best in Show: (left) Cameron Stivers, Anagha Sikha, Kirina Sirohi, and Rachel Roggenkemper

Best Visualization: (left) Alea Seifert, Jett Palmer, Kaatje Matthews-vanKoetsveld, and Alie Hall

Best Use of Outside Data: (left) Charlie Ray, Seth Johnson, Billie Block, and Deven Singh

Read more about our first in-person DataFest at First In-Person DataFest Held at Cal Poly: Tackling Complex Problems in Teams by Nick Wilson.