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UMGC Global Media Center Data Analytics Team Takes First Place at Curiosity Cup

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Adelphi, Md. (April 19, 2023)鈥揂 team from the Master of Science in Data Analytics program at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) emerged as one of in the SAS Curiosity Cup, a global student analytics competition.

In the event sponsored by SAS, the business analytics software and services company, 黑料社区 competed against 51 other teams from around the world, including Denmark, France, India, Italy, Oman, and Romania.

Teams submitted research papers that focused on real-world analytics skills. UMGC students Shiva Devkota and Zane Liu, along with faculty advisor Goldberg鈥攑resented a paper titled 鈥淐omparing Classification Models of Predicting Diabetes using SAS Viya,鈥 which focused on the use of classification models to predict factors leading to diabetes. Viya is a data-management program that employs artificial intelligence.

In the first round of judging, UMGC鈥檚 paper was accepted as one of the 10 finalists. During the second-round competition, 黑料社区 created a video presentation of its research to win the data presentation category, which was one of three individual skills that were judged. The other categories were data analysis and data preparation.

鈥淲inning the SAS Curiosity Cup competition is a significant achievement for me, both personally and听professionally,鈥 said Devkota. 鈥淚t validates my hard work, skills, and knowledge in SAS programming and data听analysis and potential to make significant contributions in the field.鈥澨

Liu said the competition results reflected the relevance of the UMGC team鈥檚 skills. 鈥淥ur showing at the SAS Curiosity Cup demonstrates that what we've learned is acceptable outside the classroom,鈥 he said.

For its accomplishment, the UMGC team will receive yearlong access to the SAS Academy for Data Science, a digital badge from SAS, a SAS certification exam voucher, and a SAS training course voucher. Full competition results can be found .

鈥淭he SAS Curiosity Cup provides students with additional opportunities to flex their data analytic skills outside of the classroom,鈥 said Dr. Kate Goldberg, collegiate professor of data analytics at t 黑料社区 and the team鈥檚 faculty advisor. 鈥淎 great benefit of the competition was to provide students with a chance to work with other analytical software packages that they are likely to encounter in the workplace.鈥

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