{"id":46743,"date":"2017-09-20T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46743"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:16:38","slug":"brock-datathon-to-highlight-growing-analytics-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/brock-datathon-to-highlight-growing-analytics-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Datathon to highlight growing analytics field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University students are leading the charge to educate their peers \u2014 and those from other schools \u2014 about the world of data analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In hopes of providing insight into the growing field, a group of like-minded students from various disciplines have come together to host the inaugural Datathon on campus this weekend. The educational conference takes place Saturday, Sept. 23 and Sunday, Sept. 24, and is open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-organizer Nour Hage, a third-year history and political science student, said a \u201cmassive gap\u201d exists in the workforce for data analysts, which opens the door for ambitious students eager to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/goodman-celebrates-launch-of-business-analytics-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opened its Business Analytics Centre last fall<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help students build the highly sought skill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur goal was to make this event as cross-disciplinary as possible,\u201d Hage said, while adding speakers were selected with backgrounds in business, history, medicine and political science, among others, to share insight into the many uses of data analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through a series of presentations from industry experts and hands-on workshops, conference attendees will learn how big data is changing the world and how to think like a data scientist. The day will conclude with a Datathon competition to test those new-found skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be opportunity to experiment with the programs being discussed throughout the day during the workshops, which require no prior experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want people to walk away with greater knowledge of data analytics \u2014 what it is and what its applications are,\u201d Hage said. \u201cWe want them to take an interest in this field and explore it a bit on their own time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, expected to draw 150 people, is nearly sold out with only a handful of $10 tickets remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration will continue <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datathon.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until Thursday, Sept. 21 or tickets, if still available, can be purchased at the door (Academic South 202) for an increased price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University students are leading the charge to educate their peers \u2014 and those from other schools \u2014 about the world of data analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":46744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3319,1,4],"tags":[5799,5800,5798,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}