Vectum proudly presents the first challenge of their kind: Zoometrics! Do you want to experience the daily excitements of Econometricians? You are given the golden opportunity to do so this February 22, 2021, and it will cost you only 3 hours of your time. Think of 2 of the greatest minds around you and form your dream team. If you want to go ahead of the competition and get through all the tasks that we prepared, we urge you to step out of the comfort zone of your friend’s circle and reach out to fellow Vectum members in various years of study. In case you feel like a gamble, you can also sign up for one of the teams at random and let your teammates be a surprise. We will try our best to assemble these teams to have students in different years of the study programme, giving younger students a chance to meet and learn from their peers who are further on in their studies.

Together you will join forces to tackle 3 tasks using real-life data with a software/package of your choice. You certainly don’t need to be the Olympian of the Hackathon, but basic knowledge of Excel (for BSc first-years and second-years) and EViews/ R/ Stata/ MATLAB/ anything similar (for BSc third-years and above), is required. Having an R environment at your disposal will also come in handy, so we strongly recommend installing it (it’s free). Otherwise, you can access it through Athena Desktop.

The Zoometrics Challenge will take place via Zoom from 16:00 to 19:00 on 22/02/2021. Successful participants of the case will receive official Vectum Certificates. The challenge awaits you!

Deadline for signing up is the 20th of Febuary 23:59