Congratulations to our Data By Design Community!
Our Goals:
- Build a diverse, collaborative and inclusive data community of all genders, skill levels and backgrounds
- Co-create a datathon event with the community with a focus centered on collaboration and learning
How we did:
253
Unique attendees at the speaker series
121
Unique members in the Slack Community
84%
of Datathon participants were first timers
What our participants had to say post datathon:
What our participants achieved through working alone or starting with a group of strangers:
- Figured out each others work habits
- Brainstormed ideas
- Chose a topic, outlined a problem
- Considered stakeholders
- Looked for data
- Refined a problem
- Looked for data again
- Cleaned and analysed
- BONUS: Created a submission and presented to a broad audience
Check out our participants submissions at the links below:
An early warning system to detect organized crime from suspicious transactions.
- William Au
Exploring a Calgary without cars
- Adrian Leung
- Beatriz Lombeida Velasquez
- Kathleen Gould
- Kristyll Avila
Do we have enough lithium to fuel the electric car revolution
- Chris Birchard
- Kris Canivet
Trends in Canadian University tuition and enrolment
- Kyle Culliton
- Honghu Li
- Lincol Lin
- Edward Yang
City of Calgary GHG Future Emissions Analysis
- Ajibola Ojuawo
- Georges Mendi
- Pat Dudar
Reducing food waste and shrinking hunger in Calgary
- Nabila Chaudhry
- Reeta Suman
- Liliana Zuleta
- Victoria Person
Thank-you to our advisors, mentors and speaker series presenters:
Marc Boulet
Dave Buckley
David Chan
Tim Chan
Reuban Gazar
Danielle Gifford
Kris Hans
Alex Hope
Corine Jansonius
Paula Jennings
Ellie Jones
Gagan Kapoor
Jenny Lien
Jil Macdonald
Tim Mack
Evan Saltman
Theresa Smith
Sara Soltaninejad
Geoff Zakaib
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