DataFest
DataFest is a celebration of data where teams of students work over the course of a weekend to find and share meaning in large, rich, and complex datasets.
For this year’s DataFest, students were asked to pretend they were starting a new company. Ideas from students ranged from law firms to fireworks manufacturers to a mom-and-pop cannoli business.
They were then given a variety of datasets, including information on past corporate lease pricing and availability, local economic factors, and Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data. Students were tasked with using these datasets and a variety of external data to justify where they would build their new company’s headquarters.
