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Data analysis hackathon successfully launched by the Department of Social Statistics
The Department of Social Statistics launched their first data analysis hackathon event on 30th September 2023 to enable our students and a wider audience to explore their potential interest in quantitative analysis.
The Department of Social Statistics launched their first Social Statistics Hackathon event on Saturday, 30 September 2023 at The University of Manchester. The event was held in the Arthur Lewis Building and aimed to enable students and a wider audience to explore their potential interest in quantitative analysis.
The main objective of the event was to provide students and the younger generation with the appropriate assistance for their exploration of quantitative analysis at the early stages of their careers.
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The Social Statistics Hackathon attracted a wide and diverse group of participants from industry to three different universities. The programme consisted of a mixture of talks, teamwork and presentation competitions.
The groups of participants were asked to conduct analyses on data from the UK Census 2021 to find hidden associations between a set of variables.
At the end of the Hackathon, the head of the Department of Social Statistics, Dr Arkadiusz Wisniowksi presented awards to the final winners of the prizes. A group comprised of two students from The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University won the first prize.
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