Bravo to the five CMDA students that have been representing Virginia Tech at the Grace Hopper Celebration #GHC19 in Orlando this week! #AnitaB Grace Hopper (GHC)

Come join us this Friday as special guest Faizan Hasnany will be joining us to give a presentation on working in the sports data analytics fields. Faizan is a recent Hokie alum, and is currently working as a coordinator of basketball analytics with the Chicago Bulls.

Open to everyone, come join SDAC as we host Ken Pomeroy this Wednesday at 6PM in Whittemore 300 Thanks to the sponsorship of VT Math and VT_CMDA, Ken will be coming back as a VT alum to talk about his work in basketball analytics, consulting for college and pro teams, and more!

Our 32 CMDA Capstone project teams will deliver their final presentations this Monday (9am-12pm, 3-6pm), Tuesday (3-6pm), and Wednesday (3-6pm) in McBryde 455, open to all. (schedule: bit.ly/38zJaR0 ) Thanks to our external and internal mentors: bit.ly/38JdubQ !

Congratulations to our latest batch of CMDA alumni! We can't wait to see the great contributions you will make to this world. Please return to VT often: share your experiences, mentor the next generation.

CMDA majors: Would you like to join our team of CMDA Computing Consultants? This is a great opportunity to help your peers and build our community. Applications are due at 11:59pm on Tuesday January 14. Apply here: bit.ly/2T6tShd

The Sports Data Analytics Club is hosting another great speaker with a VT connection - Jan 31 at 4pm in McB 129! Kenneth Massey first rose to fame when his college football rankings were incorporated into the BCS formula. See masseyratings.com

Congrats to Carrie Hopkins, named Advisor of the Month by VT's Office of Undergrad Advising! Thank you, Carrie, for your exemplary work for CMDA majors. Your dedication to our students is inspiring and instrumental to the culture we seek to cultivate. bit.ly/2OSUjnL

Coming April 2 (5-6:45pm): Women in Data Science (WiDS) Blacksburg! Eileen Martin (@Eileen_Machine) and her team have made a quick pivot to an online format. See bit.ly/2yqw37g for details and bit.ly/3bEteOf for registration.

Congratulations to CMDA alumni Alex Gagliano (2017) and Aimee Maurais (2019), winners of prestigious 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Bravo! @NSFGRFP Virginia Tech Science

VT undergrads & grad students: In place of the CMDA Club's annual ASA DataFest, Dr Lucero has teamed up with colleagues at Socially Determined to offer a COVID-19 data challenge. Team competition runs this Thursday-Monday. Sign up by noon Wednesday. Details: bit.ly/2XxdiJV

An important statement on Justice and Equality for the CMDA Community.

Congratulations to Virginia Tech Women's Soccer Nicole Kozlova for securing a HOKIE L.E.A.D. Internship with VT Athletics Information Systems! #Committed #VTGamePlan Virginia Tech SAASS VT_CMDA

Congrats to VT Statistics and CMDA professor Bobby Gramacy, named Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Bravo! Bobby will be teaching CMDA 2006 this Fall. VT News story: bit.ly/3fQosz7

CMDA alums: This Wednesday (12-1:30pm) VT LINK is hosting an Alumni Web Event on "Predictive Analytics Meets Pandemic", a panel moderated by VT Math prof Lauren Childs. For details/registration, see: bit.ly/2VblXzr

Check out this great profile [ bit.ly/2JZIe0X ] of CMDA senior David Parks by Virginia Tech Science. Congratulations to David and the 33 other CMDA students graduating this winter !

Thanks to Virginia Tech Science for their story about CMDA's Capstone Project Program -- marking 50 student projects in the Fall 2021-Spring 2022 year!

CMDA Capstone teams have been collaborating with Virginia Tech CECE and Black BRAND to develop a dashboard to study the Black wealth gap in Hampton Roads. Thanks for the great mentorship! Learn more here: vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/…

Congrats to CMDA alums Ryan Kaplan & Sam Rizzuto, and VT Stats grad students Adeline Guthrie & Danielle Sebring for winning Heat 2 of the AIRC Defense Data Grand Prix! Bravo to Stats/CMDA faculty member Christian Lucero for coaching the team. acqirc.org/defense-data-g…

Thanks to Kelly, Crystal, Ariel, Nawal, Sarah, and Sania for representing CMDA at the Grace Hopper Celebration last week! We deeply appreciate all our alums and friends who make experiences like this possible for our students.