Seeking Data Sponsors for the 2025 MinneMUDAC Student Data Challenge
The organizing committee for the 2025 MinneMUDAC Student Data Challenge is excited to invite organizations to participate as Data Sponsors for this impactful event. As a Data Sponsor, your organization will collaborate closely with the MinneMUDAC committee to create challenging, real-world questions that college student teams will tackle over the course of a month-long competition.
This is a unique opportunity to engage with and inspire the next generation of data scientists while showcasing your organization’s commitment to innovation and community collaboration. Learn more below or contact minnemudac@minneanalytics.org.
What Does a Data Sponsor Do?
- Provide Data: Supply or help identify the dataset students will analyze.
- Frame the Challenge Question: Work with the organizing committee to define meaningful questions or problems for students to solve. A predictive component is ideal, but not required.
- Offer Context: Share the background and insights needed to approach and understand the problem effectively.
Past Data Sponsors represent a wide range of industries, showcasing the diversity and relevance of this challenge:
- Sports teams (MN Twins & MN Wild)
- Mayo Clinic Labs (Churn analysis)
- Optum (Type II Diabetes)
- Agriculture and fertilizer utilization (AURI)
- Homelessness initiatives (AEON)
Join us in shaping the future of data science and analytics! If your organization is interested in becoming a Data Sponsor for 2025, contact us at minnemudac@minneanalytics.org.
More about how the Challenge works:
Student teams have one month (plus an extra week to account for spring break) to analyze data before presenting their findings to judges from the analytics community at the main event on April 5th at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Explore insights and outcomes from our Spring 2023 1-Month Challenge here: https://minneanalytics.org/minnemudac/
MinneMUDAC is co-produced by MinneAnalytics, the Data Science Initiative at the University of Minnesota, and the Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition (MUDAC).
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