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George Basta

George has placed 2nd overall in Prediction challenges (out of over 250 students). In addition he has received one of the few best scores in class overall with over 96% of credit.

Here are a few words from George himself:

Hi all! I'm currently a sophomore with plans to get a B.S. in math. Initially, I didn't want to take this class because I've had a bumpy relationship with coding, but once I got the hang of it, the coding in this course was actually pretty manageable! It also helped that I had some prior experience dealing with data from Kaggle, but the synthetic data sets in this course have been a lot more interesting to play around with. I have learned a lot about data science, but even more about what I don't know in this massive field.Big thanks to Professor Imielinski for the way he taught this class; it has definitely made me want to consider more data science and statistics classes in the future (just wish that data science major would come out sooner)."