Among the student volunteers from the University was John DiMattio \u201929, a computer science major from Jefferson Township. Last year, DiMattio was a competitor at the event in his senior year at Scranton Prep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did it last year because I like to code, so I wanted to use another coding language and see what data science is like,\u201d DiMattio said. \u201cIt gave me an insight to what this is, especially since I have to take data structure next year. So, it kind of gives a little sneak peek into what I\u2019m to expect as a computer science major.\u201d<\/p>\n
Data Science Day included data processing tutorials, individual and team competitions and a keynote address by Stephen Sorokanich, a Quantum Fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n
The competition offered a structured, beginner-friendly environment to learn high-demand skills that could be used to analyze and visualize complex data, create predictive models, identify unusual patterns and automate tasks, among other things.<\/p>\n
Volunteering alongside DiMattio was Jackson Conti \u201927, a computer science major from Pottstown.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter I\u2019d taken some data science classes with Dr. Klobusicky, I realized that this was something that I was extremely interested in. I wanted to help out where I could,\u201d Conti said. \u201cFor me, (I\u2019m interested in) the wide range of applications where you could apply data science. There\u2019s no shortage of where you could apply it: sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics. There\u2019s really nowhere you can\u2019t apply it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the student volunteers from the University was John DiMattio \u201929, a computer science major from Jefferson Township.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2211,21331,22810,6704,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-37050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-competition","tag-computer-science","tag-data-science","tag-high-school","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}