UCLA’s Datafest is a 48-hour competition where teams of undergraduate statistics students from top universities converge at UCLA to analyze rich, complex data sets from major organizations. Students are allowed just two slides to convince the judges that they have found the best data-supported insights or visualization. Datafest promotes collaboration, creativity, critical and practical analysis skills, and most of all, fun.
Students’ analysis skills are put to the test with much more complex data than what they normally see in class. Their creativity is challenged, as students are given free reign to analyze the data however they see fit, taking clues from the client’s presentation on the first night of Datafest.
I would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to The UCLA Foundation in support of Datafest.