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
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.
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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 |
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. |
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Dashboard to explore how different industries are affected by key events in Russian-Ukrainian war. Source repo here. |
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Dashboard to explore how the supply chain network reformed and changed following the pandemic. Source repo here. |
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Dashboard vizualizing ESG scores and market performance of S&P 500 companies from 2015 to 2023. Source report here and backend repo here. |
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MBAsuperwomen |
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px_lazy |
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Alpha Dogs |
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Team Crushers |
When Markets Invert: The GameStop Effect (slides and analysis) |
Beatcoin |
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
