WiDS Datathon 2021
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The 4th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon is now open! This year’s datathon, organized by the WiDS Worldwide team, the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and the WiDS Datathon Committee, focuses on models to determine whether a patient admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has been diagnosed with a particular type of diabetes.
The WiDS Datathon is now closed. Winners will be announced at the WiDS Worldwide Conference held virtually on March 8, 2021. |
What is a Datathon?A datathon is a data-focused hackathon — given a dataset and a limited amount of time, participants are challenged to use their creativity and data science skills to build, test, and explore solutions. Try something new, apply what you know, learn from other participants, and improve your data science skills along the way!
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Background: This Year's Dataset and Challenge
We will take a closer look at the WiDS 2020 Datathon data from MIT’s GOSSIS (Global Open Source Severity of Illness Score) dataset, but instead of predicting patient survival, this year the WiDS Datathon will focus on creating models to classify whether patients have been diagnosed with a certain type of diabetes which could inform treatment in the ICU.
The WiDS Datathon is hosted on Kaggle, an online community of data scientists. If you haven’t participated in Kaggle competitions before, check them out here — the platform has a ton of complex challenges with real-world impact and starter datasets for learning data science basics.
The WiDS Datathon is hosted on Kaggle, an online community of data scientists. If you haven’t participated in Kaggle competitions before, check them out here — the platform has a ton of complex challenges with real-world impact and starter datasets for learning data science basics.
Who Can Participate in the Datathon
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We invite anyone from those new to data science to veterans of the field to participate. For those who have never tried machine learning, we will be releasing a series of guides to help you get started with the algorithms and dataset.
The WiDS Datathon aims to inspire women worldwide to learn more about data science, and to create a supportive environment for women to connect with others in their community who share their interests. Toward these ends, we open the datathon to individuals or teams of up to 4; at least half of each team must be women (people identifying as female).
Participants can be students, faculty, government workers, members of NGOs, or industry members.
The WiDS Datathon aims to inspire women worldwide to learn more about data science, and to create a supportive environment for women to connect with others in their community who share their interests. Toward these ends, we open the datathon to individuals or teams of up to 4; at least half of each team must be women (people identifying as female).
Participants can be students, faculty, government workers, members of NGOs, or industry members.
WiDS Datathon 2021 is now closed.
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Join the WiDS Datathon mailing list to make sure you receive datathon news and announcements.
The WiDS Datathon is a collaboration led by the WiDS Worldwide team at Stanford University, the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and the WiDS Datathon committee:
The WiDS Datathon is made possible by the following
WiDS Global Visionary Sponsors:
