StatFest – Fall 2016

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News update:

Thanks everyone for joining us and congrats to our two winning teams Sun and Tetris! Please subscribe our newsletter for future events.

Sun’s Team

Tetris’s Team

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DataFest Detail:

The theme of this Hackathon is to create dashboards for visualizing statistical concepts that is accessible to general public. Through the series of lectures and the Hackathon contest afterwards, you will get familiar with the R shiny apps in Rstudio. The idea is motivated by the works being done by http://www.stats.org/.

There will be two winning teams in the contest. Each team will be awarded with $250 gift card. Food & drinks are provided during the StatFest.

 

Topic：     Illuminating Statistics via Dashboard

 

RSVP：     RSVP LINK

 

When：    12th Nov. 9am – 9pm

 When：   13th Nov. 9am – 5pm

 

Where :  Lerner Hall Room555

Schedule :

Saturday (11/12) morning – 9:00-10:00: Registration and ice-breaking

– 10:00-10:30: “Accessible statistics for general public”, Challenge release, 
                        Dr. Neda Afsarmanesh, Stats.org

– 10:30-11:00: Q&A 

– 11:00-12:00: Team forming 
– 12:00-12:45: During lunch “Illustrating concepts using Shiny dashboard”, 
                       Professor Tian Zheng
 

Saturday (11/12) afternoon 

– 13:00-14:00: teams working
– 14:00-14:45: Effective visual communication for dashboard” Professor Joyce Robbins 
– 14:45-15:00: Q&A 
– 15:00-21:00: teams working 
 
Sunday (11/13) morning
– 10:00-10:45: “Communicating statistics to general public: dos and don’ts”, 

                        Dr. Trevor Butterworth, Sense about Science USA

Sunday (11/13) afternoon

– 3:00-4:00: Presentations

– 4:00-4:30: Judging

– 4:30-5:00: Winners announced，with prizes awarded.