Each semester CKIDS organizes DataFest, a collection of projects proposed by USC faculty and researchers where students can learn through data science practice. Awards for students that demonstrated salient contributions and unique skills were given when the final DataFest project presentations take place at the end of the semester. Everyone in the USC community was welcome to participate.
DataFest F21 was held in collaboration with GRIDS (Graduate Students Rising in Information and Data Science). GRIDS provided mentoring, tutorials, and presentations for all participating students.
USC faculty and mentors can submit DataFest F21 project proposals. Students join the GRIDS mailing list to receive notifications about events, or contact CKIDS for more information.
DataFest F21 Projects
Below are the titles of the DataFest F21 projects. A detailed overview of all the project descriptions can be found here. DataFest projects are submitted every semester by USC faculty and researchers through an open call for proposals.
- Decoding How Humans Encode Memories
- NVISION: Network Visualization Interventions Supporting Interpretation of Objective News
- Discovering and Measuring Biases in Commonsense Knowledge Bases
- Looking at White Hat (?) Hacker Social Networks on Github
- Detecting Biases in College Football Recruiting
- Automatically segmenting and describing the human corpus callosum from brain MRIs
- COVID-19 misinformation
- Comparing Clinical Trials to Improve Cancer Treatments
- Transfer learning for adversarial machine translation
- Object detection and classification APIs for urban street image analysis
Involvement
Students interested in any of the projects listed above can sign up through this Google Form by Thursday, September 2, 2021. More information can be found through this recording of the DataFest Kick-Off event that was held via Zoom on Monday, August 30, 2021.
Key Dates
DataFest events are open to everyone in the USC community. Any students interested in attending any of these events, please contact CKIDS or get involved with GRIDS (Graduates Rising in Information and Data Science).
- Monday, August 23, 2021: Project proposals due
- Monday, August 30, 2021: Kick-off with project overview presentations
- Thursday, September 2, 2021: Project sign-ups due
- Friday, October 29, 2021: Mid-term project reports
- Friday, December 3, 2021: Final project presentations and awards
DataFest F21 Co-Chairs
Keith Burghardt
Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
Abigail Horn
Postdoctoral Research Associate, KSOM Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Keck School of Medicine
Goran Murić
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
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