Data Science Afternoon: And the winners are.....

[Lise Getoor]

Thanks all for a great Data Science Afternoon!   We had close to 150 registrants, 42 posters, 16 lightning talks, some awesome data science ice breakers, and more!

And, drumrrrrrrrrolllllll, the poster winners are:

  1st place:  Pigi Kouki, "Building Hybrid Recommender Systems using Probabilistic Soft Logic"
  2nd place: Michal Derezinski, "An Information Theoretic Approach to Text Interestingness"
  3rd place: Shawn Wolfe, "Searching Data"
and 

  People's Choice: Pedro Regueiro, "Identifying Hierarchical Structures in Network Data Using Nonparametric Mixtures"

Please congratulate them!

We're looking forward to hearing about the first successful joint papers, grant proposals, or, better yet, start-ups to come about as a result.  Please keep us posted (and remember your alma mater when you make it big, :)).

A huge ***Thank You*** to the student organizers (Nicole Mendoza, Jay Pujara, Yueming Sun & Matt Howard), staff (Cynthia McCarley, Kayla Bernard, Lisa Slater, Tracie Tucker, and CITRIS students), poster presenters, judges, speakers, Kevin Karplus for great vocal marshaling abilities, and everyone else who helped and participated!

Post your pictures, tweets, etc. here:

https://twitter.com/datasciencesc

And keep your calendar clear for spring Data Science Day, tentatively Thursday May 21. 

cheers,

Lise, Abel & Vishy