NYU Love Data Week

From February 8-12 NYU Division of Libraries and NYU Information Technology (IT) joined academic institutions from across the county to celebrate Love Data Week with a week of workshops, tutorials and presentations.

NYU Libraries Data Services and the NYU Data Science Club hosted a Love Data Week Datathon! Over the course of a week, there were workshops and a data-themed competition for students to compete in for prizes!

From February 5 - 12, student teams learned some new skills and utilized data collected by the Libraries. Students picked one of the three tracks, registered, and then at the end submitted their work. Complete information can be found on our 2021 LDW Datathon website.

We're grateful to ProQuest and L2, our sponsors of the datathon.

Overall Categories

These awards are given across different tracks in order to promote and reward excellent data stewardship and analysis.

Most Reusable

This award goes to the team with the most descriptive workflow, documentation, and scripts which can be re-run on another system easily.

The winning team is: team Haagen Das! We congratulate the team members: Rahul Das Bharadwaj, Forzana Rime, Justin Zhang, and Will Ang. You will be receiving free credits for Google Cloud Platform and a recommendation from NYU Data Services.

Clearest Visualization

This award goes to the team who created visualizations with the clearest intention, no extraneous information, and understandable aesthetics.

The winning team is: the Matrix! We congratulate the team members: Vincent Xu, Kelly Qi, Robin Zhao, and Kevin Dai. You will be receiving 1-2 hour personal, customized workshop from Data Services on a topic of your choosing.

Team Spirit Award

This award goes to the team that has the most regular and meaningful engagement with the community, and has earned the most Team Spirit points.

The winning team is: Data Dragons! We congratulate the team members: Kenneth Ding, Tina Lai, Fernando Rodriguez, Parthvi Bhutani, and Laurel Xiang. You will receive a certificate as well as an opportunity to have a 1:1 meeting with anyone from your choosing in our contacts (faculty, administrator, etc.).

Per-track awards

The following track-specific awards were sponsored by L2 Political and ProQuest, who also chose to present additional "second-place" awards to their track of interest! 

First place winners receive $50 each as well as priority access to NYU's High Performance Computing infrastructure, and a recommendation from NYU Data Services. Second place winners receive $50 each.

Track 1: Stepping Through History via ProQuest Historical Newspapers

First place: NewsDiggers! We congratulate the team members: Nick Wu, Amy Zhu, Noah Kurrack, Zixiao Chen, and Hui Wen.

Second place: Bonkers! We congratulate the team members: Kyle Ma, Esther Wu, Akshit Modi, Bernice Wu, and Riya Gupta.

Track 2: Helping the NYU Community with L2 Political Extracts

First place: the Data Dragons! We congratulate the team members: Kenneth Ding, Tina Lai, Fernando Rodriguez, Parthvi Bhutani, and Laurel Xiang.

Second place: Lovers of Data! We congratulate the team members: Eliot Brown, Cezar Fernandes, Afnan Haq, and Saahil Chamdia.

Track 3: Mapping Climatological Futures with India Meteorological Data

First place: The Matrix! We congratulate the team members: Vincent Xu, Kelly Qi, Robin Zhao, and Kevin Dai.

Understanding Regular Expressions

• Session recording: Understanding Regular Expressions (NYU Login required, captions and transcript available) 
  Recorded Friday, February 5th
• Session materials: Library Carpentry: Introduction to Regular Expressions. 

Intro to the UNIX Shell

Access recording and materials for Introduction to the UNIX Shell. 

Recorded Monday, February 8th, 2021.

Getting Started with Python Pandas

Access recording and materials. 

Recorded Monday, February 8th, 2021.

Data Cleaning for GIS

Access materials.