The Hall of Awesomeness¶

Learning is joyful. Keeping that in mind, this page is here to celebrate and trumpet the accomplishments of prior students, and inspire the next batch of students.

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LeDataSciFi LeContest Champions¶

Each year, the final assignment is a contest that gives students a chance to showcase their accumulated skills.

The stakes are high! The winner walks away with a trophy, and gets their name emblazoned on the super high quality trophy.

Trophy Front

Trophy Back (click to zoom)

2025: Haley Jones

2024: Hana Dinh

2023: Nicole ElChaar

2022: Theo Faucher

2021: Zhongrui Zhang

Great Projects¶

Every year, students put together great projects. Some of these are below. The modal project creates an awesome website. In 2022, Wall Street Bets was the first team to make a dashboard. In 2023, more teams made dashboards.

Note: Dashboards on streamlit may take a few minutes to load initially if they haven’t been used in a while. Please let me know if any of the below don’t work anymore.

Who	What
Lana Butorovic, Austen Johnson, Joseph Min, and Ryan Schmid (here or here)	App to generate optimal portfolio weights after risk aversion quiz and its source repo
Brooks Walsh, Taylor Sheridan, Tommy McDade	Dashboard of Boston AirBnBs showing listings and Census demographic data by neighborhood along with machine learning price suggestions based on user chosen factors. Source repo here and backend repo here.
Anders Seline	Senate Trade Tracker Bot
Juan Mozos, Matthew Sam, Luca Fontaine	Dashboard to explore how different industries are affected by key events in Russian-Ukrainian war. Source repo here.
Jersey Krupp, Qiyu Yang, Kyra Grodman	Dashboard to explore how the supply chain network reformed and changed following the pandemic. Source repo here.
Nicole ElChaar, Xiaozhe (“Josh”) Zhang, Mason Otley	Dashboard vizualizing ESG scores and market performance of S&P 500 companies from 2015 to 2023. Source report here and backend repo here.
Adrian Ross, Hana Dinh, Evan DeBlase, Alexander Weissman	The Sus’ Congress Trades Dashboard
MBAsuperwomen	ESG and performance
px_lazy	2022 replication attempt “Lazy Prices”
lazypricesreplication	2025 replication attempt of “Lazy Prices” (repo here by Akanksha Gavade, Hannah Gordon, Henry Piotrowski, and Marti Figueres)
Alpha Dogs	Predicting Argi-futures with Climate Data
Team Crushers	When Markets Invert: The GameStop Effect (slides and analysis)
Beatcoin	Crypto Return Factors

Some former students’ websites¶

Students put together sites to show off their portfolio of work.

Amazing TAs¶

This class is not possible without them.

2020: Daniel Appierto

2021: Jason Dinh

2022: Julio Veracruz

2023: Mike Rich

2024: Brooks Walsh

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