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WiDS Guayaquil 2026 | Datathon

The WiDS Datathon is an opportunity to discover and hone data science skills while solving an interesting and critical social impact challenge. Whether you are an aspiring data scientist or a data science enthusiast, WiDS provides a supportive environment for participants to connect, share interests, learn from, help each other, and have a lot of fun!

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Details

May 6, 2026

4 days

Centro de Innovación

Requirements

Be a university student

Teams of up to 4 people

At least half of the team members must be women

Register in the registration form

Speakers

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Camila RiosDatathon MentorAnalytics Lab

Schedule

March 26, 2026

13:30 • 90 minutes

Challenge kickoff

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

Review of the problem statement, scoring rules, and team formation for the datathon.

Centro de Innovación

15:15 • 60 minutes

Dataset cleaning and validation

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

Guide to identify outliers, missing values, and consistency across key variables.

Centro de Innovación - Sala A

16:30 • 45 minutes

Baseline modeling sprint

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

Build a baseline solution to benchmark improvements during the challenge.

Centro de Innovación - Sala B

17:30 • 60 minutes

Feature optimization and tuning

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

Practices to iterate hyperparameters and improve performance without overfitting.

Centro de Innovación - Sala A

18:45 • 45 minutes

Visualization for result storytelling

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

How to build clear visualizations to present insights to judges and stakeholders.

Centro de Innovación - Sala B

March 27, 2026

19:45 • 60 minutes

Final pitch preparation

Camila Rios • Datathon Mentor

Recommended structure to present problem, solution, metrics, and impact.

Centro de Innovación