By Stacey Federoff
Donna Zhu texted teammate Hannah Nguyen: “Hannah, we won first!” with five exclamation points when organizers notified participants of results from Carnegie Mellon University’s inaugural Student IronViz Challenge.
“I knew we were competing against really smart CMU students, and even though I was confident in our results, we just didn’t expect it to be first prize, so we were really happy,” Nguyen said.
The pair won for their data visualization, “Brain Food for the Night Owls,” in the competition, out of 32 students that submitted 14 projects after a four-hour hackathon in Hunt Library on Oct. 26. Winners were notified Nov. 18.
“The response from students was really magnificent,” said Emma Slayton, data education librarian with University Libraries, on the competition planning committee. “They really came with their own vision and enthusiasm.”
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