VCU alumni win Governor’s Datathon 2017
Recent grads of the VCU School of Business Decision Analytics Professional Track (DAPT) program took first place in the 2017 Virginia Governor’s Datathon: Using Data and Analytics to Battle the Opiod Crisis.
Subhash Jaini, Sharat Tadimalla and Sam Waters, all class of 2016, and Khai Wisler, 2017, were on the winning team, which was comprised of data scientists from Analytics Adventures and staff from the Virginia Center for Addiction Medicine. Other alumni and faculty from the program also participated in the competition.
The Governor’s Opioid Addiction Crisis Datathon is a groundbreaking competition that brought together multi-discipline teams comprised of individuals from government, higher education, private industry, and non-profits together to take new and existing datasets and turn it into actionable information that will support the Governor’s goal of using data and analytics to stem the tide of the opioid crisis, reduce addiction harm, and save lives.
Data stewards from health, public safety, and other agencies across federal, state, and local government and health systems provided existing and new non-sensitive de-identified data to this challenge for the teams to explore and use.
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