We are excited to announce three of our 2021 MinneAnalytics Scholarship recipients: Federico Chung of Macalester College; Janelle Guse of St. Catherine University; and Anthony Lanier of Augustana University. Federico Chung is a senior majoring in economics and applied math and statistics with a minor in computer science. Federico was drawn to the statistics major …
High school students invited to explore machine learning at U of M Machine Learning Summer Camp
For the 5th year in a row, the Minnesota Center for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (MCFAM) within the University of Minnesota’s School of Mathematics is hosting Machine Learning (ML) Summer Camps for high school students. Like last summer, the camps will be held virtually. The three different weeklong camps are co-sponsored by MCFAM, the School …
Student Machines Defeat Humans in Spring Edition of MinneMUDAC Data Science Challenge
Many of us look forward to the excitement of filling out March Madness brackets each year, but this year MinneAnalytics took that thrill to a new level. For the special Spring 2021 edition of the organization’s MinneMUDAC Student Data Science Challenge, student teams were invited to compete for bragging rights and cash prizes by building …