“It was rewarding to see teams work diligently on their projects despite their busy schedules and lack of exposure to data science and the data science workflow,” Baker said. The event culminated with final presentations and judging on February 29, 2020. Students were given a week to work on their projects, beginning with a day-long kickoff event and an in-person hack session with their assigned mentors on February 22, 2020. Booz Allen Senior Consultant Alex Baker mentored one of the top award-winning teams: Yanzhi Shen and Zhenyang Wang, Grand Prize and Best UMD Project for their work with the New Pollution dataset. These datasets contributed to several of the winning projects: Grand Prize, Outstanding Graduate Project, Best Global Sustainability Challenge, Outstanding UMD Project, and Outstanding Undergraduate/Graduate Project.
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The Recycling Diversion dataset is comprised of time series data for predicting recycling behavior.īringing people and information together for a healthier planet.data representing zone, clean-up date, trash type, pounds of trash and more from TIDES, the world’s largest dataset representing ocean trash. The “Ocean Cleanup” dataset featured U.S.The “New Pollution” dataset identifies the time and location of different pollutants, for models that forecast the different concentrations of pollutants.Judges evaluated entries on criteria including innovation, teams’ final presentations, and results.Īs a Gigabyte Sponsor for the 2020 event, Booz Allen mentored teams, scoped projects, provided technical support and guidance to student teams, and contributed three datasets to the initiative: The initiative, hosted by the University of Maryland, challenged student teams to develop implementable, scalable data science projects that link to the EPA’s Three Pillars of Sustainability: environmental, social, and economic.
How many materials targeted for recycling are actually being recycled? What kind of resources do we need to clean up our oceans, and how should these resources be allocated?Īnswers to questions like these are important steps to a more sustainable planet, and over 180 undergraduate and graduate students were on the case in the 2020 UMD Data Challenge. Learn how private equity firms can effectively communicate ESG progress We help organizations share their ESG communications with audiences around the world Participate in or attend our leadership series on corporate action and activismĬelebrate your company’s placement on this prestigious ranking Recognize your CEO for their bold, innovative leadership on ESG issues
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