Thanks to Kelly, Crystal, Ariel, Nawal, Sarah, and Sania for representing CMDA at the Grace Hopper Celebration last week! We deeply appreciate all our alums and friends who make experiences like this possible for our students.
Congrats to CMDA alums Ryan Kaplan & Sam Rizzuto, and VT Stats grad students Adeline Guthrie & Danielle Sebring for winning Heat 2 of the AIRC Defense Data Grand Prix! Bravo to Stats/CMDA faculty member Christian Lucero for coaching the team. https://t.co/FlR781mLBL
CMDA Capstone teams have been collaborating with @VTCECE and @blackbrandbiz to develop a dashboard to study the Black wealth gap in Hampton Roads. Thanks for the great mentorship! Learn more here: https://t.co/Et3COeEmqG
Check out this great profile [ https://t.co/gDenrZZtHI ] of CMDA senior David Parks by @VT_Science. Congratulations to David and the 33 other CMDA students graduating this winter !
CMDA alums: This Wednesday (12-1:30pm) VT LINK is hosting an Alumni Web Event on "Predictive Analytics Meets Pandemic", a panel moderated by VT Math prof @ChildsLaurenM. For details/registration, see: https://t.co/ITs9mnfWYt
Congrats to VT Statistics and CMDA professor Bobby Gramacy, named Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Bravo! Bobby will be teaching CMDA 2006 this Fall. VT News story: https://t.co/qc2n3vSqJP
VT undergrads & grad students: In place of the CMDA Club's annual ASA DataFest, Dr Lucero has teamed up with colleagues at @SocDetermined to offer a COVID-19 data challenge. Team competition runs this Thursday-Monday. Sign up by noon Wednesday. Details: https://t.co/iJNpq0tng8
Congratulations to CMDA alumni Alex Gagliano (2017) and Aimee Maurais (2019), winners of prestigious 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Bravo! @NSFGRFP @VT_Science
Coming April 2 (5-6:45pm): Women in Data Science (WiDS) Blacksburg! Eileen Martin (@Eileen_Machine) and her team have made a quick pivot to an online format. See https://t.co/DnrBJNSTvh for details and https://t.co/foxmW3fNEh for registration.
Congrats to Carrie Hopkins, named Advisor of the Month by VT's Office of Undergrad Advising! Thank you, Carrie, for your exemplary work for CMDA majors. Your dedication to our students is inspiring and instrumental to the culture we seek to cultivate. https://t.co/1od5Q3o6d7
The Sports Data Analytics Club is hosting another great speaker with a VT connection - Jan 31 at 4pm in McB 129! Kenneth Massey first rose to fame when his college football rankings were incorporated into the BCS formula. See https://t.co/UfTXDXrfuQ
Come join SDAC this Friday in Mcbryde 129 at 4PM as we host Kenneth Massey!
A VT alum and a producer of Massey Ratings, which helps evaluation for professional and amateur sports.
He will share his journey and will discuss the challenges and methods of composing sports rankings.
CMDA majors: Would you like to join our team of CMDA Computing Consultants? This is a great opportunity to help your peers and build our community. Applications are due at 11:59pm on Tuesday January 14. Apply here: https://t.co/4GIbFSmpjX
Congratulations to our latest batch of CMDA alumni! We can't wait to see the great contributions you will make to this world. Please return to VT often: share your experiences, mentor the next generation.
Our 32 CMDA Capstone project teams will deliver their final presentations this Monday (9am-12pm, 3-6pm), Tuesday (3-6pm), and Wednesday (3-6pm) in McBryde 455, open to all. (schedule: https://t.co/ayb1SYc2wW ) Thanks to our external and internal mentors: https://t.co/WL4Aulrjyq !
Open to everyone, come join SDAC as we host @kenpomeroy this Wednesday at 6PM in Whittemore 300
Thanks to the sponsorship of VT Math and @VT_CMDA, Ken will be coming back as a VT alum to talk about his work in basketball analytics, consulting for college and pro teams, and more!
Come join us this Friday as special guest Faizan Hasnany will be joining us to give a presentation on working in the sports data analytics fields.
Faizan is a recent Hokie alum, and is currently working as a coordinator of basketball analytics with the Chicago Bulls.