Symposium to highlight Purdue students’ work solving data-driven corporate projects

Purdue students in The Data Mine this year have been taking their skills outside of the classroom, working hand-in-hand with industry partners to tackle data-driven projects.

Those undergraduate and graduate students will have the chance to feature their work as part of The Data Mine Corporate Partner E-Symposium on Monday (April 12).

The symposium will be in the format of an e-conference. The event is open to the public.

“This year’s E-Symposium showcases the data-driven industry problems that The Data Mine students worked on throughout the academic year,” says Mark Daniel Ward, director of The Data Mine. “These challenges range from supply chain analytics to video analytics. It highlights the 26 corporate partnerships between The Data Mine program and some of Purdue’s closest research partners.”

Data science is the use of scientific method to examine data and gain insight from that information. The work encompasses areas including artificial intelligence and machine learning and focuses on problem solving.

Purdue is answering the call for data science expertise with The Data Mine – a unique program that promotes learning from data and transforming it into important information to help solve real-world problems. The students, living in a community setting, partner on projects with established corporations.

The Data Mine is part of the Integrative Data Science Initiative at Purdue.

Margaret “Maggie” Betz, corporate partners senior manager for The Data Mine, said the number of projects has doubled from last year. Thirty-three posters will be presented at next week’s virtual symposium from the 26 corporate partnerships.

Betz said new projects from this academic year have included an array of businesses:

• Beck’s Hybrids.
• CAT Digital.
• Microsoft Minecraft.
• Delta Faucet.
• Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) consortium.
• Kraft Heinz.
• UPS.

Student posters will be posted as PDF files with five-minute videos on the symposium website beginning at 8 a.m. ET Monday.

In addition to the posters and videos, each corporate partner student group will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. via Zoom link for a Q&A with symposium guests. The Zoom links will be posted Monday morning to the symposium website.

Corporate partners featured by The Data Mine symposium last year included Ford Motor Co., Sandia National Laboratories, John Deere and Rolls-Royce. 

Writer, media contact: Brian Huchel, 765-494-2084, bhuchel@purdue.edu
Source: Mark Daniel Ward, mdw@purdue.edu
Maggie Betz, betz@purdue.edu