WiDS Datathon 2022 

Hone your data science skills with the WiDS Datathon, joining teams in a predictive analytics challenge focused on social impact. The WiDS Datathon 2022 will focus on the environment and climate change. Details will be announced in November, and the competition will begin in January 2022. Winners will be announced at the March 7, 2022, WiDS Worldwide conference at Stanford. If you’d like to participate in the WiDS Datathon, sign up for the WiDS Datathon mailing list to be notified when registration opens this fall.

In 2021 the WiDS Datathon had record-breaking participation, with 1,773 individuals on the leaderboard, 24,479 entries, and nearly 4,000 registrants — forming hundreds of teams to analyze hospital patient health records. View the results!
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Congratulations to the WiDS Datathon 2021 winners!
1st Place: Dihydrogen Oxide from USA 
2nd Place: EPFL from Switzerland
3rd Place: ScientificMind from Israel

The WiDS Datathon is a 100% community driven challenge, where participants get experience and trainings from partners, ambassadors and data enthusiasts in social impact challenges. See how it has evolved in the last four years.​

Excellence in Research Award

Participants in the WiDS Datathon Phase 1 on Kaggle, were invited to share more details about their work with WiDS Datathon 2021 data through a research paper of up to 3 pages. 

Congratulations to the winning team, ScientificMind with members
Maya Saghiv and Pavel Vodolazov!

Learn More

How it Works and Who Can Participate in the Datathon

Photo credit: Dana J. Quigley

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.

​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 have a series of guides to help you get started with the algorithms and dataset.

The WiDS Datathon inspires 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.

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Want to participate? Join the WiDS Datathon mailing list to receive datathon news and announcements. Registration opens this fall! 

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​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: