Participant Teams

🔥 Brace yourselves for the DataFest! 20 powerhouse teams, 69 brilliant minds, all set to clash in the ultimate data showdown. Meet the squads—game time is near! 🚀

1. Vietnamese Statistical Association

(Jonathan, Luna, Brian, Sam, and Eli)

2. Otters

(Eunice, Ellie, Ryan, and Jeremy)

3. Team NA

(Noah & Aryaman)

Filling in the gaps, one data point at a time

4. Data Jays

(Max, Lily, Rebecca, and Chelsea)

5. GGAP

(Alyssa, Paisley, Grace & Grace)

6. Frisbee Team

(Margaret & Faith)

A couple of ultimate frisbee players who are excited to apply that field sense to some data

8. The Unicorns

(Sutter, Jeffrey, Nolan, Harvey, and Jake)

You bring the data, we bring the magic

9. Stat Avengers

(Shriya & Glenna)

10. Hot Tea

(Ice, Robert, and Owen)

11. InvASIANS

(Dawson, Ken, Takeshi, and Josuke)

12. DABJ

(Alec, Dustin, and Jeremy)

DABJ (ignore the B) is LOCKED IN, we finna cook!

13. Screenagers

(Danny & Gio)

14. Lebron X Bronny James

(Ryan, Jason, and Zach)

Bronny James for 2025 MVP of the NBA

15. The Chopstick Masters

(Izzy, Yana, Kushal, Abe, and Michael)

Wielding innovation like chopsticks — graceful, deliberate, and fueled by interdisciplinary collaboration

16. Data Alchemists

(Edwin, Jinhe, Felice, and Olzhasbek)

Modern-day sorcerers of analytics, masters of transforming data into powerful predictions

17. The Prompt Engineers

(Harrison & Abigail)

We may not have the answers, but we will be sure to phrase a question well enough to fake it.

18. Team to be named

(Leliani, Paul, and Diego)

19. Team to be named

(Noblesse, Betty, Sungmin, and Jenna)

20. Team to be named

(Matthew, Adrien, Irene, and Shriyans)

Note

Please share a photo of your team along with a one-sentence witty description, and we’ll feature it under your team name! It’s a great way to get to know your competition and network during the event. Below is an example of a team photo and description. We’ll read your team description when introducing your team to the judges—so make it fun, witty, and informative (no pressure, though!). You’re welcome to combine individual photos into a single image. Please send the photo and the description to krish [AT] northwestern.edu

Thinkers

Armed with caffeine, questionable data cleaning techniques, and a shared fear of run-time errors, Thinkers are here to prove that creative ideas can beat coding and statistical sophistication!