Stat 221 T-shirts have arrived!

The class has 6 T-shirt competitions (5 finished and the final one pending) and code performance competitions based on homeworks. All winners get free T-shirts. Today, the T-shirts have arrived and the hardworking competition winners can claim theirs!

The course graphic design mastermind Sofia Hou designed two versions, and we ordered a nice variety for everyone.

There are in fact two versions of the front logos, and the lucky competition winners can pick up a T-shirt with their favorite design.

The teaching staff says all caps THANK YOU both to the competition winners, and those who weren’t yet lucky enough to get a free T-shirt. Students sometimes worked 50+ hours on their homework submissions to design better code and make them run faster for the code performance leaderboards, or came up with creative T-shirt competition entries.

In addition to the already awarded T-shirts, there are more chances to win it! We will be awarding two more T-shirts, one for comp 6, and one for pset 5 code performance leaderboard. Subject to size availability, we also plan to award T-shirts to all members of the team with the best final project presentation as determined by the audience!

We look forward to the 15+ final project presentations of work done together with the likes of Starbucks, Nationwide Insurance, eBay, Deloitte, MIT, and others.

We learned a lot in the class, and the T-shirt comps helped. We’ve learned to write better code, how to understand interactive visualization, and how to be comfortable with data-intensive problems without giving up scientific rigor. Most importantly, we learned where to go next.