Team TriSAS has emerged as the champion, winning against five other finalists, at this year's SAS-SMU Analytics Competition. The team is comprised of third-year students from SMU's School of Information Systems - Ranon Sim and Vincent Tatan - as well as final-year Lee Kong Chian School of Business student Smeet Malvania.
As part of SAS' ongoing efforts to groom the next generation of data scientists, SAS, together with SMU School of Information Systems and the Business Intelligence and Analytics Student Club, have co-organised the SAS-SMU Analytics Competition. The competition was open to all students across the six schools at SMU, namely Accountancy, Business, Information Systems, Economics, Law and Social Sciences. Participating students were tasked to identify the growth opportunities in the ever-changing mobile technology industry, using a dataset that comprised over 900,000 comments related to mobile phones for the past 15 years. They were given two weeks to analyse the data using a suite of SAS analytics tools to generate actionable insights.
[Featured Photo: Associate Prof Michelle Cheong (left), Ranon Sim, Smeet Malvania, Vincent Tatan, Ms Tan Poh Choo (Operations Director, SAS, Singapore)]
