Statistical Sciences's Masters students will present the Department of Statistical Sciences seminar, with a talk entitled, "Applied machine learning techniques in the Barclay's hackathon.

Barclays' hackathon is a 24-hour event, in which teams from around the world 'gather' and tackle a set of real-world problems from Barclays. It held a high level of international competition, with a total of 54 team entries. We, as UCT's student team, faced off against 53 professional teams within the field of data-analytics.