About This Project
Data Enchanted, a Taylor-Swift themed data workshop series, introduces students to coding and data analysis and provides a fun, supportive environment for students to develop these skills. Students learn to use the statistical software Stata to build, clean and transform data for analysis through this eight-part series which includes workshops such as You Belong With Me: Building and Structuring Data for Analysis, I Knew You Were Trouble: Transforming and Cleaning Data, and Long Story Short: Presenting Data Efficiently.
Data Enchanted prepares students for a 24-hour data competition called The Econ Games. The past four years, a team of undergraduate students from a variety of majors have participated in this intense challenge in which teams analyze data and present their findings to a panel of industry partners. This year, the data sponsor for The Econ Games is Equibase, the data collection group for the Thoroughbred racing industry. Students have already begun to prepare, traveling the Fair Hill Training Center where they met Michael Matz, a renowned Thoroughbred trainer and horseman, who has won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.
These two data programs provide valuable hands-on experience working with data as they might in their future jobs. Students report these experiences providing them with clarity and motivation for building on these skills in the classroom.
How your support makes a difference!
Your gift will help us send a strong, motivated team of students to the 2026 Econ Games where they will develop real-world skills and create lasting connections! Thank you for your support!
