Tencia Lee, a Math graduate and hedge fund trader, partnered with Qi Liu, a PhD in Physics also with a hedge fund background, to devise the winning algorithm in this year’s Data Science Bowl. They spent more than 100 hours each in evenings and on weekends building and testing algorithms. Working in parallel, Lee and Liu built and trialled hundreds of algorithms to read the heart scans. Their efforts paid off, with the largest prize in the competition, among 993 data scientist contestants in the Data Science Bowl. In this blog, Tencia Lee reveals the work behind the win. Read More