Senior business analytics students enrolled in the Capstone Course, BUAL 5860, compete to win cash prizes and certificates in the Business Analytics Student Poster Competition hosted by the Department of Business Analytics and Information Systems at Harbert College of Business each Spring and Fall Semester.
Presentations are judged on presentation skills, poster display, relevance of problem, clarity of results and implications of findings.
First Place: $1,500 and certificate of participation
Second Place: $1,000 and certificate of participation
Third Place: $700 and certificate of participation
People's Choice Award: $500 and certificate of participation
Friday, April 28, 2023 |
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Location: Innovation Lab on the Ground Floor of Horton-Hardgrave Hall Networking lunch with students and faculty (Invitation only) RSVP HERE |
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12:05 PM - 2:15 PM: Location: Atrium on the Ground Floor of Horton-Hardgrave Hall Poster Judging and Display (Open to the University and Public) |
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: |
Our corporate partners and data sponsors help make this event a real world exercise in business analytics. We would like to thank the following companies for participating:
There are twelve teams in this class working on different data-driven projects. The students had to define their own objectives, obtain or collect the data, find patterns in the data through descriptive analytics techniques and create predictive models using machine learning approaches.
TEAM - Model Behavior
First Place
Team Members: Nicholas Knautz, Chris Cox, Matthew Mayers, Grace Turney, and Alex Hamm.
Team members are pictured with course instructor Pankush Kalgotra (left) and department chair Uzma Raja (right).
TEAM - The Dream Team
Second Place
Team Members: Liqi Lu, Will Bowman, Sam Richardson, Zhongxing Chen and Christian Wilson
Team members are pictured with course instructor Pankush Kalgotra (left) and department chair Uzma Raja (right).
TEAM- The One and Only
Third Place
Team Members: Sam Easterling, Joshua Picott, Christian Conboy, Emma Meeks, Savannah Street.
Team members are pictured with course instructor Pankush Kalgotra (left) and department chair Uzma Raja (right).
There are seven teams in this class working on different data-driven projects. The students had to define their own objectives, obtain or collect the data, find patterns in the data through descriptive analytics techniques and create predictive models using machine learning approaches. A brief description of each dataset is given below.
View Spring 2022 Presentations
TEAM 8 - Auburn Analysts
First Place
Team members: Chloe Mikus, Isabel De Armas, Pierce Dickson, Brady Watts, and Anne
Hays Wright
TEAM 10 -Dill or No Dill
Second Place
Team members: Jack Ray, Danny Trainer, Kayla Taylor, Anthony Bostany, and Noah Vaughn
TEAM 13 - The Miner League
Third Place
Team Members: Frank Hudgins, Riley Spengeman, Mary Koch, Kyle Travelstead, Grace Crosson
TEAM 7 - BUAL Ballers
Peoples' Choice Award
Team members: Jiawei Tong, Tiancheng Jiang, Tanner Rowburrey, Madison Morrow, W. Buddy
Haas, Annabel Antoniak