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 demonstrate salient contributions and unique skills are given when the final DataFest project presentations take place at the end of the semester.   Everyone in the USC community is welcome to participate.

DataFest S20 was held in collaboration with the GRIDS data science student association.  GRIDS provides mentoring, tutorials, and presentations for all participating students.

USC faculty and mentors can submit project proposals.  Students can join the GRIDS data science student association.to receive notifications about events, or contact CKIDS for more information.

A summary of the DataFest F20 project presentation event describes the projects and awards given to students.

DataFest F20 Projects

Below are the titles of the DataFest F20 projects.  A detailed overview of all these projects can be found here.  DataFest projects were submitted by USC faculty and researchers responding to our the open call for DataFest project proposals.

1. Worldwide Survey Estimates of Maternal Bereavement

2. Investigations of a Data Science Online Community

3. The aging individual brain

4. Mapping the Uncanny Valley

5. Mapping the impacts of climate change across LA County

6. A framework for enabling software comparison and classification

7. Integration of Frame Semantics to Cyber Ontologies

8. Brain morphometry from contrast-enhanced T1-weighted brain MRIs

9. Social Graph Analysis and Attribution of Software Exploit Contributors Using GitHub

10. Machine Learning to Analyze Rock Microstructures

11. Generation of a Sports-based Introductory Data Science Curriculum to Increase Participation of Underrepresented Groups in STEM

12. User-centered building design preference assessment to develop data-driven interactive architectural design guideline models

13. Detecting Biases in College Football Recruiting

14. Tracking health and nutrition signals from social media data

15. Digital Democracy: Using Social Media to Improve Political Discourse

16. Characterizing the counter-narratives of climate change

17. Team Dynamics in Online Multiplayer Games

 

DataFest F20 Co-Chairs

Andres Abeliuk

Senior Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering

Deborah Khider

Senior Data Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering

 

Fred Morstatter

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering

Goran Murić

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering