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Announcing the first-ever WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Award

2/14/2020

The WiDS Datathon 2020 currently has 678 teams from approximately 85 countries analyzing 130,000 hospital patient health records — and it’s not too late to join online! WiDS ambassadors and community partners have led more than 25 datathon-focused workshops over the last month, and continue to produce tutorials and resources.

A Data Scientist’s Deep Dive into the WiDS Datathon

1/24/2020

Working with the WiDS Datathon dataset over the past week has been a thrilling exercise. This dataset presents an opportunity to learn about interesting and real-world modeling challenges, and is different from other curated datasets in textbooks and classic machine learning exercises. For that reason, I discuss some of the challenges you may experience around missing data, multicollinearity and linear/ nonlinear approaches. I will also provide resources to help you on these topics.

The WiDS Datathon 2020 is Now Live, Encouraging Women Worldwide to Hone Their Data Science Skills

1/12/2020

The 3rd Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon competition is now open on Kaggle, and the competition has begun!

Announcing the 3rd Annual WiDS Datathon

12/12/2019

In advance of the March 2, 2020 Global WiDS Conference, we invite you to build a team, hone your data science skills, and join us in a predictive analytics challenge focused on social impact. The WiDS Datathon 2020 focuses on patient health through data from MIT’s GOSSIS (Global Open Source Severity of Illness Score) initiative.

The WiDS Datathon Provides New Skills, Confidence and Community for a Graduate of the University of Ghana

8/26/2019

After participating in the 2019 WiDS Datathon, Dorothy Ewuah felt empowered, connected and inspired to pursue her studies and career in data science. Dorothy just graduated with a degree in Information Technology from the University of Ghana Legon. She wrote a blog post about her experience collaborating with two other team members from Ghana in the WiDS Datathon.

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Announcing the first-ever WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Award

A Data Scientist’s Deep Dive into the WiDS Datathon

The WiDS Datathon 2020 is Now Live, Encouraging Women Worldwide to Hone Their Data Science Skills

Announcing the 3rd Annual WiDS Datathon

The WiDS Datathon Provides New Skills, Confidence and Community for a Graduate of the University of Ghana

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