Three student-led teams from Dakota State University swept top honors at the 4th annual Data Analytics Competition, hosted by the College of Business & Information Systems and Sanford Health this week.
Eddie French, Wyatt Olson, and Gabe Delle (Deli) represented team Data Dawgs in the competition and took home first place. That group, which won $2,500 for their efforts, was advised by Dr. Andy Behrens, Assistant Professor in the College of Business & Information Systems.
Two other DSU teams finished tied for second place and each earned $1,250.
25 teams from eight different universities were given opportunities to respond to the problem statement, and for the first time, finalists in the competition were all from Dakota State University.
This year’s problem statement, announced in December by Sanford Health, focused on predicting emergency department demand. Using more than five years of historical data (and roughly 175,000 patient encounters across four large hospital emergency departments), teams forecasted when patients are likely to arrive by month, day of the week, and time block. Based on those forecasts, teams also predicted how many of those patients would ultimately be admitted to the hospital.
