DIRISA
Student Datathon Challenge 2024

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ABOUT EVENT

The DIRISA student datathon is a competition that is organised by the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) to showcase how open research data can be used to come up with creative and innovative solutions to some of South Africa’s problems.
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News and events

Sponsor Announcement: ALTRON

We are excited to announce that ALTRON is once again one of the sponsors for the DIRISA Student Datathon Challenge 2024.

The ALTRON team will be providing the dataset that will be used by the students and also providing internships opportunities in 2026 for the selected students!

Thank you ALTRON!

Sponsor Announcment: BOSTON

The DIRISA Datathon organisers are excited to announce BOSTON as one of the sponsors of the challenge.

BOSTON will be providing the datathon with infrastructure, datasets and software solutions that the students will be using throughout the competition.

As part of the sponsorship, the BOSTON team will be providing the 1st team technical with training voucher.

Thank you BOSTON!

Sponsor Announcement: Mathworks and Opti-Num Solutions

We are excited to announcment our partnership with Mathworks and Opti-Num Solutions who will be creating a MATLAB challenge for the datathon.

Mathworks and Opti-Num Solutions will be sponsoring gifts and training voucher to the value of 750 Euros to the winning student team.

Thank you Mathworks and Opti-Num Solutions!

Sponsor Announcment: ALX Africa

We are thrilled to announce that ALX Afica has joined us as a proud sponsor of the DIRISA Datathon!

ALX Africa will be sponsoring the 2nd team, best female, best male and 1st place research with Data Science Course Vouchers.

Thank you ALX!

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