2025 Bucknell Data Challenge Winners

All of the award winners for the 2025 Data Challenge standing with their certificates.
Left to right: Ellyn Ngo ’26, Dulguun Soyol-Erdene ’26, Farhaj Shahid ’26, Alec Sanders ’25, Shane Monaghan ’26, Celine Chang ’27

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2025 Bucknell Data Challenge!

In this week-long data challenge, teams of students were presented with surprise datasets and asked to draw some insight from the data. The event was open to all majors and backgrounds using any type of data science software! This year’s datasets were all about top songs: 2025 Bucknell Data Challenge, data and instructions

At the final presentations on February 13th, each team gave a brief overview of their work to a panel of judges. Congratulations to our winning teams:

Best-in-Show: Globalization of Love Songs on Billboard Hot 100

By Celine Chang ’27, Dulguun Soyol-Erdene ’26, Ellyn Ngo ’26, and Holiness Kerandi ’26

See the full visualization in Tableau Public: Globalization of Love Songs on Billboard Hot 100

Three students holding certificates to show that their team won the "Best-in-Show" prize.
Left to right: Ellyn Ngo, Celine Chang, Dulguun Soyol-Erdene (not pictured, Holiness Kerandi)

Best Insight: Top 10 Artists: Predicted Billboard Hot 100 Success (2025-2026)

By Alec Sanders ’25, Farhaj Shahid ’26, and Shane Monaghan ’26

Three students, all wearing "I heart data" shirts, holding certificates to show that their team won the "Best Insight" prize.
Left to right: Shane Monaghan, Farhaj Shahid, Alec Sanders
A bar chart showing the results of a predictive model for which artist will be on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, showing that Glass Animals and The Weeknd are the most likely to be at the top for 68 weeks each.
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