2023 Data Derby
Saturday, April 8
Do You Have Passion
For Data & Analytics?
This free event is for high school, undergrad and graduate students from all Minnesota colleges and universities.
2023 Winners – Datagon and Datathon
DATATHON

DATATHON – Advanced
1st place: Plotting The Foodture
Metropolitan State University
- Tayler Williamson
- Sho Xiong
- Ann Letsinger
- Abdellah Afellah
2nd place: Metric Mavericks
Mankato, Minnesota State University
- Jake Hauser
- Noah Haile
- Saumya Gautam
3rd place: Data Mavericks
Mankato, Minnesota State University
- Manidweep Yelamanchi Sri Vidya G
- Ricardo de Deijn
- Lamima Farhat
- Syed Shuja

DATATHON – Novice
1st place: Custom Deviation
Metropolitan State University
- Sasha Johnson
- Joselyn Fear
2nd place: MCK
Metropolitan State University
- Carter Schwalen
- Lu Ling Tai (Karishima)
- Michael Torborg
3rd place: The Boooleans
Lake Superior College
- Nicholas Wasbotten
- Jacob Moss
- Thomas Mudek
- Nathaniel Zagrabelny
DATAGON

Datagon High School
2 winning teams
TaCode Cats
Eastview High School
- Advika Chaudhari
- Keira Schumacher
Eden Prairie High School
- Aradhana Choudury
Interested in serving as a judge?
Data science and analytics professionals are invited to serve as judges and have first-hand access to top talent across Minnesota. Educators may contribute use this as a professional development opportunity and contribute as judges (you may serve as a judge even if you are a team faculty advocate since you’d be recused from judging team (s) from your institution).
Volunteer by emailing Boern Vang at boern.vang@metrostate.edu
Access to the Data Derby challenge questions and instructions to download the data sets will be emailed to registered participants within 1 business day of the start of competition.
Contact Boern Vang at boern.vang@metrostate.edu if you do not receive this in time.