About Us
The BearcatStats Club is the Student Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) at the University of Cincinnati. It was founded in 2015 with faculty advisor Dr. Marty Levy (Professor Emeritus). BearcatStats Club provides opportunities for students to connect with other students interested in statistics, data science, and analytics and interact with prominent statisticians locally and at national meetings. It also provides latest information about local academic/industry talks and job opportunities, as well as different competition events on data science. BearcatStats Club encourages students to continue studying statistics and provides career information in the statistical and data sciences.
Currently the club has more than 20 members, including students from Master programs in Statistics, Biostatistics, and Business Analytics, as well recent graduates.
All students are welcome to join BearcatStats! Free to register!
Save the date:
4/12 5:30 pm
Lindner Hall 608
Upcoming Event:
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April 27 2-3pm: A seminar talk on network analysis by Yunpeng Zhao (GMU), at French Hall 4206
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May 14-16, 2018 Analytics Summit Conference and Training (UC Center for Business Analytics)
Other events
Data Science Competitions
Prize Money
Zillow Prize: Zillow’s Home Value Prediction (Zestimate)
Can you improve the algorithm that changed the world of real estate? Zillow Prize, a competition with a one million dollar grand prize, is challenging the data science community to help push the accuracy of the Zestimate even further. Winning algorithms stand to impact the home values of 110M homes across the U.S.
$1,200,000
Organizers
Dr. Yan Yu
Co-Advisor
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Yan Yu is the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Business Analytics at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University, with a minor in Finance.
Co-Advisor
Yichen Qin is an assistant professor in the Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the Johns Hopkins University in 2013.
Prof. Marty Levy
Former Faculty Advisor
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Professor Emeritus of Business Analytics
Department of Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems
Carl H. Lindner College of Business
University of Cincinnati
Brittany Green
President
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Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems
Car H. Lindner College of Business
University of Cincinnati
Xiaorui Zhu
Vice President
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Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems
Lindner College of Business
University of Cincinnati