Past Essay Contests
Essay Contest topic for Spring 2018?
Migration/Refugees
0.0025 x 699
1.7475
Democratic Candidate for CA Governor?
Gavin Newsom
Nickname for the Republican Incumbent in Texas?
Lyin' Ted
Associated with economists?
Stata
Semester with a Question fit for Students?
Fall 2018
Fifty percent of forty percent of ten percent of thirty two?
0.64
The Independent Senators up for re-election this year?
Sanders and King
Reason Dems need to be +5% or +6% on the Generic Ballot to take the House?
Gerrymandering
Open Source darling of the Berkeley Statistics Dept?
R/RStudio
When we asked about Presidential Policies?
Spring 2017
P(X|Y) = (P(X) * P(Y|X)) / P(Y)
Bayes Rule
Texas Democratic Senate Candidate?
Beto O'Rourke
Close governor's race that could result in the first black female governor?
Georgia
Granddad of Stat Software
SAS
When was Brexit a topic?
Fall 2016
Line AB runs between the points (-2,1) and (1,4), what are the coordinates of the line CD reflected across the x-axis?
(-2,-1) and (1,-4)
Number of Democratic Senate seats up for election? Republican?
D: 27, R:8
Percentage of competitive House races where Democrats have outraised Republicans? (Nytimes, Washington Post, Slate)
90-92%
Language of many functions that's growing more popular for Data Science?
Python
Semester with a Journal but no Essay Contest?
Spring 2016?
Name the mathematicians that invented Calculus, independent of one another?
Newton & Leibnitz
Pollster Famous for his accuracy? Bonus: What is his alma mater and what was his major/what did he get a master's degree in?
Nathan Silver
Name two close Senate seats up for election this year?
Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, North Dakota, Florida, or Arizona
"Industry Standard" programming language for communicating with databases?
SQL