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Goal: To provide advice to the American Bar Association (ABA) concerning any patterns of trends seen in conversations of clients requesting pro bono support. Broadly, helping the ABA advise its state partners, create resources to respond to identified patterns, and devise outreach strategies to better reach potential user populations and volunteers.
Judges:
- Amar Dholakia | University of Toronto
- Angela Clare | TD Canada Trust
- Ezgi Saricoban | TD Canada Trust
- Jianguo Hu | TD Canada Trust
- Jin Xing | TD Canada Trust
- Kopal Soni | TD Canada Trust
- Maliha Farhad | TD Canada Trust
- Maunishbhai Patel | TD Canada Trust
- Md Abrar Nasir | Government of Canada
- Nikki Kaneda | TD Canada Trust
- Raghvi R | TD Canada Trust
- Reynold Chan | TD Canada Trust
- Roisin Fritz | TD Canada Trust
- Sabrina Sixta | University of Toronto
- Sergio Betancourt | Nextdoor
- Siqi (Tim) Zheng | University of Toronto
Sponsors:
- American Bar Association
- Nextdoor
- Rotman School of Management | TD Management Data and Analytics Lab
- TD
Winners
- Best Insight: Team 3/4 Senioritis: Aarez Brohi, Afnan Kadir, Bashaar Hassan, Kevin Lai
- Best Visualization: TimBucks Cup: Junjie Xu, Kewen Xie, Xiaofeng Liu, XinYi Li
- Best Presentation: Survivors: Huiru Hong, Keylen Wei, Sahil Patel, Yung-Sheng Cheng
- Honourable Mention: Data Framers: Devyani Chandra, Satwik Chugh, Ishita Julka
Contestants
- The Standard Deviants: Hanqi Zhang, Jenny Oh, Luqiong Xie, Yuka Saito
- Data Crunchers: Junho Choi, Luren Dai, Kristin Mai, Zhuohang Wang
- Team NAMA: Alexander Odartey-Wellington, Miguel Weerasinghe, Nada Aboulwafa, Ziqing Gao
- Stacube: Iris Ye, Jingcheng Shao, Peijun Lu, Xiao Lu
- DDCottonFlyK : Hongxu Tom Zha, Jianfeng Huang, Sabrina Chen, Yifei Zhang
- Survivors: Huiru Hong, Kaylen Wei, Sahil Patel, Yung-Sheng Cheng
- Ikun: Jenny Yu, Qianyu Fan, Yifan Yu, Yong Chen
- LLCH_distribution: Sui Cheung, Yifan Liu, Yinzhou Liu, Zirun Hong
- Unbeaten: Jiawei Yuan, Yiyi Tan, Yuqi Xiang, Zutai Su
- SharkBee: Catherine Jiang, Lucy Zhao, Xingyou Zhou, Yuxin Jiang
- Data_Date: Ariel Xu, Kehui Li, Yifan Cheng, Yixuan Chen
- Not-So-Standard Deviations: Alan Powichrowski, Oluwatomisin Adeniyi, Teo Nocita, Zackary Nay
- Aestie: Kelu Li, Wenjie Ma, Xueying Qian, Yi Chen
- Team Data Framers: Devyani Chandra, Ishita Julka, Satwik Chugh
- The Insightful Ones : Yihan Chen,Henry Lu, William Wu, Yiyang Wang
- Team Hortons: Jianheng Huang, Joseph Wang, Xiaohan Lu, Zhiquan Cui
- Number Nautankis: Ananya Jha, Janhavi Agarwal, Jay Kanchankoti, Stuti Sekhri
- TimBucks Cup: Junjie Xu, Kewen Xie, Xiaofeng Liu, XinYi Li
- Team Water: Alisha Zhao, Eden Zheng, Edison Lin, Justin Dylan Lim
- Team 3/4 Senioritis: Aarez Brohi , Afnan Kadir, Bashaar Hassan, Kevin Lai
- 3 Salesmen and 1 Quant: Anthony Tam, Juho Kim, Qais Alfar, Ramzi Ashqar
- Team Insights: Evelyn Wang, Michael Ngan, Patrick Yuan, Rui-Yuan Hu
- KLAG: Chuanrun Zhang, Kexin Wang, Siqing Xu, Yankai Feng
- UTSCA: Ainiwaer Kuteluke, Dylan Rapanan, Peijia Guo, Reem Al Halabi
Goal: The Play2Prevent lab had game play logs and survey results from players of Elm City Stories (an educational video game aimed to promote healthy behaviours among children and youth). DataFest competitors were tasked with analyzing this data to help researchers understand players’ game play and decision making.
Judges:
- Anees Shaikh | Amazon
- Atinder Bharaj | TD
- Esther Li | Rogers Communication
- Hannah Brennan | Sleepout
- Julia Dedic | Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
- Lucas Krenn | flovtec
- Mark Coombs | Sleepout
- Nicholas Murphy | BMO
- Nidhi Patel | JLL Technologies
- Paul Edwards | Wealth Simple
- Richie Youm | Wealth Simple
- Sarah Riccuiti | TD
Sponsors:
Winners:
- Best Statistical Analysis: We R: Pan Chen, Siqi Zheng, Xiaoxuan Han, Yini Mao.
- Best Visualization: Missing Value: Quanming Wang, Yuhong Zhang, Yunni Qu, Zhelan Li.
- Best Insight: The Scout Regiment: Jessica Wang, Meiyi Wu, Vannie Wang, Yuanjun Xia.
- Best Statistical Analysis (Honourable Mention): KLAG: Chuanrun Zhang, Kexin Wang, Siqing Xu, Yankai Feng.
- Best Visualization (Honourable Mention): BoundaryBreakers: Anh Nguyen, Hrithik Kumar Advani, Kaushik Thakkar, Sarah Mansoor.
- Best Insight (Honourable Mention): GoStats: Anisha Huq, Joyce Nguyen, Nicholas Susanto, Xiao Lu.
Contestants:
- Advance: Huiru Hong, Yuqing Zhang, Lijing Wei, Xiao Ling.
- Alpha-23: Pengchao Sun, Zhaoji Wang, Zhuohang Wang, Zhuoran Li.
- BJMJ: XinLin Yang, Jiachi Liu, minjie ma, Billy Yang.
- Boundary Breakers: Anh Nguyen, Hrithik Kumar Advani, Kaushik Thakkar, Sarah Mansoor.
- Data Daters: Hanrui Dou, Yao Yao, Ruofan Bi, Xuan Zhong.
- Data Killer: Teng Wang, Tingyuan Yin, Xinyi Ding, Yumeng He.
- Deeper Quants: Jiangchen Zheng, Jin Qin, Linxia Li, Tingjun kang.
- Didn’t take time to have a name: Xindi Liu, Yuxuan Yang, Zimeng Gu, Ziyu Jiang.
- Fantastic Girls: Jerrina Cai, Jinping Liang, Lucia Tan, Tong Su.
- Gamma: Huyun Li, Johnson Vo, Rumteen Taheri Dolatabadi, William Gagne.
- GoStats: Anisha Huq, Joyce Nguyen, Nicholas Susanto, Xiao Lu.
- Haha: Xiao Lu, Peijun Lu, Jingcheng Shao, Yichen Zhao.
- In the Cloud: Jinli Xu, wenyan Zou, Xinxue Guo, Yiyi Tan.
- KLAG: Chuanrun Zhang, Kexin Wang, Siqing Xu, Yankai Feng.
- Meow: Huiyang Chen, Xingyou Zhou, Xiaoning Wang, Yupeng Zhang.
- Metadata Matrix: Chang Ma, Jiahao Li, Xiaoqing Chen, Xinjing Guo.
- Missing Value: Quanming Wang, Yuhong Zhang, Yunni Qu, Zhelan Li.
- Panto: Adeline Leonardi, Christian Halim, Justin Alianto, Lovina Lokeswara.
- Quantifying Queens: Esther Zhi Xuan Gew, Jia Xi Wang, Tiffany Plourde, Wen Han Zhao.
- StaWar: Xin Li, Jiangyuan Lin, Shih-Chieh Lee, Xinyuan Qian.
- The Cheetahs: Emanuel Budulai, Hyoeun Park, Jaffa Romain, Kexin Qin.
- The Scout Regiment: Jessica Wang, Meiyi Wu, Vannie Wang, Yuanjun Xia.
- We R: Pan Chen, Siqi Zheng, Xiaoxuan Han, Yini Mao.
- We're Skewed: Arsh Lakhanpal, Jasmine Markou, Keya Patel, Stephanie Cristea.
- WXYZ: Zichun Xu, Howard Xiao, Runshi Yang, Kai Yang Wise Chua.
Goal: DataFest competitors used data collected from North America (Canada, United States) and Europe (Germany and United Kingdom) to make inference on drug use and drug misuse patterns.
Judges:
- Arthur Grabovsky | Amazon
- Osvaldo Espin-Garcia | Dalla Lana School of Public Health/Princess Margaret Cancer Center
- Atinder Bharaj | TD Insurance
- Melanie Poulin-Costello | Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
- Greg Pond | Juravinski Cancer Center
- Nick Murphy | BMO
- Sean Sexton | KPMG
- Michael Luit | CS UTM
Winners:
- Best Insight: Library(Purrr) - Tina Wang, Rain Wu, George Huang & Ben Min.
- Best Visualization: Prospective Analytics - Jing Yuan Zhang, Eric Zhu, Muhammad Tsany & Sergio Steven Zheng Zhou.
- Best Use of External Data: Bad Boys - Haoluan Chen, Dawei Dong, Yujie Li & Tu Wu.
- Honourable Mention: GO! - Hanrui Dou (Lisa), Yuying Chen (Kate), Aichen Liu & Yuyuan Liu (Livia).
Contestants:
- Bad Boys: Haoluan Chen, Dawei Dong, Yujie Li & Tu Wu.
- Bayesian Bois: Thomas Liu, Kuba Wernerowski, Alan Powichrowski & Shyam Menon.
- Caffeinated Analysts: Alexander Shum, Jonas Lee, Minsung Kim & Zi Peng Liu.
- Daisy: Jace (Kyungmin) Lee, Soomin Lee, Dax Patel & Siliang Xu.
- DGL: Yichen Ji, Kexin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu & Yuxuan Lin.
- Fishermen: Zhuo Jun Zhong, Xinchi Shi, Zhan Li & Bailin Zeng.
- Funny Stats Name: Juan Jaramillo, Gurkaran Dhami, Daniel Ray Casabuena & Syed Kazim.
- GO!: Hanrui Dou (Lisa), Yuying Chen (Kate), Aichen Liu & Yuyuan Liu (Livia).
- Learning Machines: Fuyuan Jiang, Junming Zhang, Mingxuan Teng & Jiakai Shi.
- Library(Purrr): Tina Wang, Rain Wu, George Huang & Ben Min.
- Olympus: Rong Huang, Yuntian Bo, Zhongyu Xie & Yushu Zou.
- Prospective Analytics: Jing Yuan Zhang, Eric Zhu, Muhammad Tsany & Sergio Steven Zheng Zhou.
- Sweetesteam: Yueran Hu, Kaiyan Jiang, Jiahui Liu & Xiao Li.
- Tesfatad: Xiaolong Liu, Yunkai Fan, Tinyat Cheung & Xinhao Hou.
- The Outliers: Yiwei Lyu, Yiyi Tan, Tianxiao Ma & Shaohua Zhu.
- THJK: Ting Lu, Kristina Todic, Jeffrey Tran & Hrithik Kumar Advani.
- Tomato303: Jaekang Lee, Alexander MacKenzie, Chang Sun & Tzuying Yu.
Judges:
- Baris Akyurek | autoTRADER.ca
- Xiao Xiao | Thompson Reuters
- Joe Bettridge | TELUS
- Charlie Keown-Stoneman | St. Michael’s Hospital
- St. Clare Chung | SCIAN Services
- Adam Rahman | Manulife
- Linbo Wang | DoSS/UTSC
- Daniel Grech | CRA
- Yixing Zhang | CPPIB
- Qiang Sun | DoSS/UTSC
- Ming-Chang Tsai | Pacific Sports Institute
- Manos Papagelis | York University
Sponsors:
- Manulife
- CANSSI INCASS
- UTSC Computer & Mathematical Science
- American Statistical Association
- Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Winners:
- Best In Show: The β’s (The betas) - Parsa Mansouri; Quentin Vilchez; Binderiya Adishaa; Fin Vermehr.
- Best Visualization: Tractor - Colin Wan; Jerry Zikun Chen; Shin Ren; Lucas Chen.
- Best Use of External Data: Poison Distribution - Fengyan Li; Meixi Chen; Vivian Ngo; Sonia Chhay.
- Hounourable Mentions: Supremum - Ziang Zhang; Jialun Lyu; Haoye Wang; Xiaotong Liu.
- Hounourable Mentions: W!N19 - Evan Baltman; Xuyan Ding; Zhiya Lou; Mingxuan Teng.
Judges:
- Fanny Chevalier | UofT
- Brenda Nguyen | Geotab
- David Giard | Microsoft
- Monica Dulgheru | Amazon
- Javier Moreno | Rubikloud
- Stanislav Volgushev | UofT
- Mateusz Ujma | Manulife
- Atley Hunter | Microsoft MVP
Sponsors:
- Manulife
- American Statistical Association
- Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
- Microsoft
- Bell
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
- DCSIL
Winners:
- 1st Price: Cinnamon (Zelin Li, Xiaoke Meng, Zack Chiu, Jason Li)
- 2nd Price: ABC (Benjamin Levy, Cait Harrigan, Anna Kwan)
- 3rd Price: Deep Topology (Juhan Bae, Sungyoon Jung, Yoona Park)
- 4th Price: Matcha (Yuko Yasuda, Aira Sugiura, Shisei Nake, Zhuoer Sun)
Winners:
- Best in Show: Final Destination - Timur Borkohodoev, Joshua Samson-Seltzer, Ian Mahoney, & Michal Malyska
- First Runner-up: Sunshine - Ron Suprun, Megan Mattes, Marissa Zhang (not shown), & Emily Xu (not shown)
- Most Creative: Forgiving Green - Yang, ZhiChao, Hu, YuanYuan, ZHICHENG XU, & Yang Qu
- Best Use of Outside Data: Four Cents - Taiyan Liu, Jun Ouyang, Yutao Lu, & Zeneng Fan
Judges and Mentors:
- Alex Stringer | TransUnion
- Alison Gibbs | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Caren Hassler | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Craig Burkett | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Einat Gil | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Eric Chuen Cheong | Manulife
- Frank Rudzicz | UofT/Toronto Rehab
- Helen Kontozopoulos | UofT DCSIL
- Jack Zhou | OWLSMusic
- Jessica Leung | Kobo
- Kevin Thorpe | St. Michael’s Hospital/UofT Biostatistics
- Khurram Tehseen | Manulife Financial
- Lennon Li | Ontario Public Health/UofT Biostatistics
- Mario Grech | UofT DCSIL
- Mark Ebden | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Matthew Scicluna | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Michael Gherzhoy | UofT Computer Science
- Nancy Reid | UofT Statistical Sciences/CANSSI
- Nathan Taback | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Nazanin Khosravani-Tehrani | Kobo
- Shiva Ashta | Advertience
- Sohee Kang | UTSC Computer and Mathematical Sciences
- Sotirios Damouras | UTSC Computer and Mathematical Sciences
- Talia Borodin | Data Scientist/Consultant
- Wei Deng | UofT Statistical Sciences
- Wei Lin | UofT Statistical Sciences
Sponsors:
- DataCamp
- American Statistical Association
- Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
- CASSI INCASS
- Kobo
- UTSC Computer & Mathematical Science
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
- DCSIL
- Statistical Society of Canada
Winners:
- Best in show and best visualization: Team UTSC International - Huiyan Xu, Yiheng Li, Peiying Li, & Tianjiao Qi
- Best use of outside data: Team Psi - Charles (Tae Joon) Park, Ray (Tianrui) Xiao, Jewel Ho, & Harris Chan
- Most creative presentation: Team TMI - Yuwen Huang, Jingwen Xu, Tiantian Fang, & Yuqing Zhou
- Honourable Mention for Best Use of Advanced Statistical Methods: Team XYZ - Yuxin Zou, Ruoqi Yu, & Yingxue Zhou
Contestants:
- Mobile Parking: Lehang Zhong, Xinyu Fan, Kishan Patel, & Fred Bizimana
- UTSC International: Huiyan Xu, Yiheng Li, Peiying Li, & Tianjiao Qi
- Psi: Charles (Tae Joon) Park, Ray (Tianrui) Xiao, Jewel Ho, & Harris Chan
- TMI: Yuwen Huang, Jingwen Xu, Tiantian Fang, & Yuqing Zhou
- XYZ: Yuxin Zou, Ruoqi Yu, & Yingxue Zhou
- Sunday: Xiyuxiao Chen, Yanyi Yang, Richard Zhou, & Yaqi Xu
- Black group: Jiushan Yang, Xiaomeng Jin, Tangling Li, & Huan Ling
- Data Monster: Jiarui Cai, Chang Cao, Weijie Xu, & Xuechen Li
- Delta Chi: Marian Guled, Nathaniel Edwards, Rose Garrett, & Resham Riaz Shah
- Data Assessment: Yun-Yee Megan Yow, Oleg Gladkov, Steven Biro, & Jiawei Li