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Oct
10
2014

Enova Financial: Enova Data Smackdown

When: Friday, October 10, 2014
6:00 PM - 11:45 PM CT

Where: Norris University Center, Wildcat Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Student

Contact: Career Services  

Group: Northwestern Career Advancement

Category: Other

Description:

Enova Data Smackdown

The Enova Data Smackdown is a data analysis competition unlike any other. In contrast to many other contests that test only modeling skills, the Data Smackdown will challenge participants in all the major steps of completing an analytical project in the real-world. Specifically, it will require participants to use all of the three main skill sets of data science:

1. Mathematics expertise
2. Computer science skills
3. Business strategy and acumen

The structure of the competition is designed to loosely follow the CRISP-DM phases of data mining. Those are:

1. Business Understanding
2. Data Understanding
3. Data Preparation
4. Modeling
5. Evaluation
6. Deployment

Agenda (subject to change):

6:00 - 6:30 PM: Teams arrive, register, get set up and enjoy some free food
6:30 PM: USB drives will be provided to each of the teams and the competition will begin
10:15 PM: The password to the validation data set will be provided
10:30 PM: Teams will be required to return their USB drives containing the required files
10:30 - 11:00 PM: Judges from Enova will review the answers provided. The top four teams will be announced
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: The top four teams will present to the judges and other participants.
12:00 AM: The winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded

For information regarding our event last year: http://www.enova.com/blog/data-smackdown/

Click the 'more info' link for more information & to RSVP via CareerCat > Events > Info Sessions.

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