DIRISA
Student Datathon Challenge 2025

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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 2025.

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

Thank you ALTRON!

Sponsor Announcement: GIZ

We are excited to announce GIZ as a first-time sponsorship of our Student Datathon Challenge! Thank you for your generous prize contribution.

Your belief in fostering future talent is invaluable and will hugely motivate our aspiring data scientists.

We are profoundly grateful.

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.

Thank you Mathworks and Opti-Num Solutions!

Sponsor Announcment: SASRIA Africa

We are thrilled to welcome Sansria as a sponsor for our Student Datathon Challenge.

Your generous prize pool is a powerful investment in our participants, fueling their ambition and innovation in data science.

Thank you for your incredible support.

Sponsors