• Event: Data Science Day (a student-focused annual conference)
• Topic: Data and AI in Society
• Headline Speakers: Jin Zhao, an AI researcher at Brandeis and Yoohyun Jung, data editor at the Boston Globe
• Other events: Student poster awards, panel sessions, networking session
• Date: Saturday, November 8th, 2025
• Time: 8:30am to 5:30pm
• Host: New England Statistical Society's NextGen
• Location: Brandeis University (also in Waltham, just a short drive away)
• Registration: Register at this link, and a limited number of Bentley students can get free registration with promo code DSD2025BENTLEY

Get some live practice with a case analysis DraftKings Inc. has used during tech interviews in the past.  Try out the challenge in a no-pressure situation as a learning experience, with live coaching from current DK team members, including Bentley alumna Allison Mega.  Hear about analytics, accounting, and finance internships and chat with the DraftKings employees who run the event.

• Where: Jennison 309
• When: Tuesday, October 21, 2:00pm-3:20pm

Light refreshments provided.  This was one of our most well-attended events last year, so we're excited to be able to offer it again.  See you there!

Announcing the Spring 2025 Study Party!

Join your math and stats professors for an Italian buffet dinner, and get your questions answered before final exams.

As we do every semester, the faculty in the Mathematical Sciences Department want to help you power through your final exams and projects.  Stop by Morison 220 on Thursday, May 1 (Reading Day), from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.  Eat from the buffet, enjoy desert, study with friends, and get help from your professor!

Interested in learning data visualization in Tableau?

Prof. Ahmet Kurt has created self-study modules for Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, and Tableau.  At this event, he will introduce attendees to Tableau and to the self-study module he's created for it in Bentley's Brightspace.  Attendees who want to get certified in Tableau at a later date can use that self-study module (with built-in quizzes to practice for the certification exams) to prepare.

All students interested in data visualization, from any major or graduate program, are welcome!

When: Wednesday, April 23, 2:00pm-3:20pm, Activity Period

Where: Smith Technology Center, Room 218

Want to try an academic competition without the stress?  Want a project you can put on your LinkedIn profile?  Try the Un-Competition!

• March 20: Instead of the usual Tea Time, we'll run the opening event:
  • 3:30pm-4:30pm, Morison 220
  • We'll be eating pie (doubles as a late pi-day celebration) and all are welcome, even if you don't plan to try the competition.
  • The data set will be released, the rules will be given, and we'll run a brainstorming session to help teams get started.
• Throughout the week of March 24-28
  • Faculty will volunteer at various times to host Un-Competition office hours in Morison 220 to help teams make progress.
  • Specific times will be posted here before that week.
• April 2: Teams will present their results!
  • 2:00pm-3:20pm, Activity Period, Morison 220
  • ALL students and faculty (not just participating teams) are welcome to watch the presentations--and enjoy more desert!
  • Informal prizes will be awarded but no major scholarships are at stake.  (Remember, it's a chill competition.)

👉 Register your team using this form online. 👈

Join us for a talk by the founder and CEO of People Analytics Success, the premier advisory, coaching and education firm in the people analytics space. No RSVP required to attend in person but you can register for the Zoom webinar at this link.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 2:00 pm to 3:00pm, Adamian 143

Employee data are increasingly used to improve business outcomes as organizations focus on talent as the "final frontier" of competitive advantage. However, employees are not always told when their data is being collected, what is being done, and how the data collection and analyses might benefit them.

This conversation explores ethical issues in collecting, storing, and utilizing employee information. The panel will raise questions about fundamental tensions between organizational interests and individual rights, the unintended consequences of data collection, and the responsibilities of holding sensitive personal information. Issues such as security, privacy, consent, safety, fairness, transparency, the role of leadership, rights and responsibilities, standards and regulations, and authenticity will be discussed.

Bentley alumna Allison Mega will show Bentley students what a technical interview at DraftKings is like, including a chance to try one of their case analysis challenges!

• When: Monday, October 21, 3:30pm-4:30pm
• Where: Morison 220

Don't miss this great opportunity to try a dry-run of a tech interview case with guidance from experts.  Plus, get a chance to hear about Allie's journey from Bentley to DraftKings.

See you there!

Time to up your data visualization game in PowerPoint!

All university students have free access to the data viz tool think-cell, used by 90 of the Fortune 100 and by 9 of the top 10 business schools.  Come Friday for some free training and free food!  Learn how to quickly create advanced data visualization tools like Waterfall charts, Gantt charts, Mekko charts, and more.  Attendees can gather and learn together in person from a think-cell employee who will attend virtually, or attendees can attend remotely instead.

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Morison 220 or on Zoom here, refreshments provided in person.

When someone tells you about an AI company or project, how can you get past the superficial? This event will give you three questions to ask about any AI innovation to get past the buzzwords and hype and get to the real substance. But more importantly, this event will also introduce a new room in Morison Hall for analytics and marketing students to use as a community space! Come see the new room Bentley renovated for students in these programs to use for hanging out, studying, socializing, and events like this one.

Also, this event will introduce a new study room to be shared by marketing and analytics students!  Come see the new space and learn when and how you can use it as your home away from home on upper campus!