ASA Data Fest at Wake Forest
What is Data Fest?
ASA DataFest is a 3-day statistics and data science competition that takes place in universities across the nation in March - April each year. Wake Forest students have been participating since Spring 2018!
DataFest is open to any undergraduate student with experience in some statistical computing, and experience with regression. If you have STA 112 or STA 212 , you are ready to compete in our level 1 division. My folks with more classes, like STA 362 or STA 363, you will be competing in our level 2 division. We also have a graduate level division for masters students.
In 2022, DataFest will take place April 1st - 3rd. Interested student can sign up here! Please feel free to contact Dr. Dalzell at dalzelnm@wfu.edu if you have any questions about DataFest 2022!
DataFest is open to any undergraduate student with experience in some statistical computing, and experience with regression. If you have STA 112 or STA 212 , you are ready to compete in our level 1 division. My folks with more classes, like STA 362 or STA 363, you will be competing in our level 2 division. We also have a graduate level division for masters students.
In 2022, DataFest will take place April 1st - 3rd. Interested student can sign up here! Please feel free to contact Dr. Dalzell at dalzelnm@wfu.edu if you have any questions about DataFest 2022!
STA 175: Statistics Competitions
Wake Forest students interested in DataFest take a 1 credit pass/fail course called STA 175 in Spring semester. In this course, we meet once a week for practice competitions, short lessons on new coding, models, and techniques, and time to work on these skills with colleagues.
Interested Students should contact Dr. Dalzell at dalzelnm@wfu.edu to learn more about STA 175!
Interested Students should contact Dr. Dalzell at dalzelnm@wfu.edu to learn more about STA 175!
Past Events
2020
March 25- 27, 2020: Due to COVID, our event was virtual. 75 Wake Forest students competed to model data from Lyft.
2019
April 5-7, 2019: 40+ Wake Forest students competed in ASA DataFest at Duke University. The data set was provided by the Canadian National Women's Rugby Team.
2018
In March 2018, 23 Wake Forest student competed at DataFest at Duke modeling data from TicketMaster.
