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
SPRING 2024 DATE TO BE DETERMINED |
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM: Location: Innovation Lab on the Ground Floor of Horton-Hardgrave Hall Networking lunch with students, faculty, and corporate guests. (Invitation only) |
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11:50 AM - 1:30 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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1:40 PM - 2:00 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:
The class will be working on different data-driven projects. The students will need 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 - Dream Team "Bussin’ it Down: Tiger Transit Analytics "
First Place
Team Members: Houston Prewett, Shaun Gutmann, Jiayi Wang, Abby Johnson, Alex Romer
TEAM - Aerodynamic Analysts "Understanding safety and performance in f1 racing"
Second Place
Team Members:Hunter Lewis, Kelso Jacobson, Parker Elliot, Nelson Earley
TEAM - Skyline Chili Connoisseurs "Bengals Defensive Analysis"
Third Place
Team Members: Cameron Binney, Tyler Morris, Hudson Van Allen
TEAM - Bonnie Plants Analytics "Using Analytics to Improve Sell-Through"
Third Place
Team Members:Dylan Fancher, Jake Richardson, Spencer Dunn, Matt Wilson, Andrew Jones
TEAM - Hunting Houses "Will the Bubble pop?"
First Place
Team Members: Kayla Gallman, Rebekah Rath, Sage Ellis, Hunter Lange, and Evan Atkinson.
TEAM - The Beatboxers "Predicting COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough"
Second Place
Team Members: Katie Craze, Megan Gibson, Blake Spradlin, Adam Camlic, Samuel Burnette)
TEAM - The Roots "Get to The Green: Analyzing Bonnie Plants Store Success"
Third Place
Team Members: Heath Varmette, Dax Wilson, Davis Hawk, Landry Stephens, Rob Griffin, Tucker Brant
Pictured with data sponsor representatives from Bonnie Plants, Alayna Priebe and Elizabeth Henslee
TEAM - Four Seam "Cold Pitches: The Effect of Weather on Baseball Metrics and Pitch Success"
People's Choice Award
Team Members: Alexa Hann, Rapley Hills, Hannah Hoven, Josh Petramale, Boston Smith, Aidan Stoffle
Pictured with Faculty Dr. Pei Xu and Dr. Pankush Kalgotra
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.
1. Bonnie Plants Sales Prediction – Bonnies Plants has shared their sales data from The Home Depot and Lowes. In addition, the total foot traffic and demographic information about the location where stores are located is available. The objective is to identify the factors affecting sales using descriptive and predictive analytics models.
2. Insomnia condition among college students – The objective is to understand the relationship between mental disorders and insomnia among college students. The students collected data from an online health forum.
3. Olympians performance prediction – The purpose is to understand the relationship between the performance of the players based on their country of origin.
4. The Effect of Weather on Baseball Metrics and Pitch Success – Supported by AU Baseball, the students aim to identify the important sports-related and external factors that can predict pitch success.
5. Evaluating the performance of EBSCO customers – Sponsored by EBSCO, students are analyzing customer transaction data to find the differences between low and high-performing customers.
6. Predicting COVID-19 breakthrough infections in Alabama – Sponsored by the Alabama Department of Public Health, students are building models to compute the likelihood of a patient getting a breakthrough infection.
7. Will the bubble pop? - The housing market is in constant flux with houses being listed and sold every single day. This project examines the current housing market to determine if the conditions are similar with the housing market before the 2008 crash. Comparing these data points will allow us to forecast the potential of another crash in the current housing market.
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