2023 DATATHON

The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon Challenge 2023 was themed “Adapting to Climate Change by Improving Extreme Weather Forecasts”. Participants were provided with data sets and tasked with improving sub-seasonal forecasts through the fusion of machine learning techniques and traditional physics-based forecast models.

Global participation involved more than 750 teams spanning 100 countries. Locally 6 teams participated with a total of 23 Participants – 13 females and 10 males. Our first place team placed in the top 10% globally.

See our full 2023 Event Summary here.

WiDS TT Datathon Workshop & Regional Events

The WiDS Trinidad & Tobago is hosting virtual workshops and regional events in support of the international WiDS Datathon Challenge 2023. The main goals are:

to provide data science enthusiasts with the necessary knowledge, resources and tools to assist in the international WiDS Datathon challenge and beyond
to promote awareness about data science experiences from the female perspective, featuring women in data science-related fields in academia and industry

Workshop 1 (Virtual) – Saturday 4th Feb 2023 – 10 30 am AST

Data Science Overview & the WiDS 2023 Datathon Challenge

Data science: A beginner’s guide – Dr. Letetia Addison

Overview of the WiDS 2023 Datathon challenge and data set – Ms. Usha Rengaraju

Workshop 2 (Virtual) – Saturday 11th Feb 2023 – 10 30 am AST

Title: Data Science Methods at a glance

Gentle Introduction to Pandas – Ms. Fazeeia Mindy Mohammed

Data science prediction methods – Ms. Alleanna Clark

Workshop 3 (Virtual) – Saturday 18th Feb 2023 – 10 30 am AST

Title: Finished training your ML Model: What Next?

Insights and challenges when ML Models are deployed in the real world – Ms. Sarah Ostermeier

Spotlight Talk (Virtual) – Saturday 4th March 2023 – 10 30 am AST

Title: AI Applications in Agriculture in the Caribbean

The FAAIR project aims to demonstrate modern Caribbean farm resilience and adaptability by incorporating AI technology. This spotlight talk investigates the processes, applications, and challenges of the FAAIR project related to Climate change and its overall effect on small farming within the Caribbean.

Speaker: Ms. Fazeeia Mindy Mohammed

Fireside Chat (Virtual) – Saturday 11th March 2023 – 10 30 am AST

Title: Women In Data Science: Stories from the fields Attitudes and perceptions about data science from the female perspective

This Fireside Chat features women in data science-related fields in academia and industry from around the globe to promote awareness about data science experiences from the female perspective.

Combined Speaker list for Workshops and Talks

Featured Invited Speaker

First Place in WiDS Datathon 2022

MS. USHA RENGARAJU

Usha currently heads the data science research at Exa Protocol, and she is the World’s first women triple Kaggle Grandmaster. She specializes in Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models and was one of the TigerGraph “Graph for all – Million Dollar Challenge” judges in 2022 and also the judge for oneAPI Hackathon 2022 organized by Intel Software. Usha ranked as one of the top ten Data Scientists in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine, as one of the top ten women data scientists by Analytics Insight magazine for 2021, and as one of the top 150 AI Leaders and Influencers by 3AI magazine. She organized NeuroAI, which is India’s first-ever research symposium on the interface of Neuroscience and Data Science. She also organized the Neurodiversity India Summit, which is India’s first-ever conference in Neurodiversity. Usha is one of the winners of “ML in Action” competition organized by the ML Developer programs team at Google, and her team won first place in the WiDS 2022 datathon organized by Stanford University. Recipient of Kaggle ML research spotlight prize.

Check out her YouTube channel

WiDS TT 2024 Leaderboard