ATLANTA, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On
November 9, thousands of high school
students across the country will compete to solve real-world
problems in the CodeDay Big Data Challenge. SRND, a non-protfit
organization that promotes STEM education for high school students
and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions have partnered to offer the
competition - which is a newly added twist for CodeDay, a 24-hour
programming event hosted seasonally in 53 cities across the US and
Canada.
During the new competition, student teams will be given 90
minutes to devise a big data solution using two open data sets that
relate to gaming and music. They will use the same technology and
techniques used to solve problems such as the detection of money
laundering or compromised user accounts. To aid in analyzing the
data, students will be granted access to HPCC Systems®, LexisNexis
Risk Solution's leading, open source big data processing
platform.
The Big Data Challenge will be held as one of many events at
CodeDay, a 24-hour event that gives beginner middle and high school
students the tools and mentoring to explore programming and
computer science.
"We're really excited about this partnership because our
students want to solve problems that improve their world.
Increasingly, that requires working with the tremendous amount of
data available," said Tyler Menezes,
Executive Director at SRND. "This opens up a lot of
possibilities."
"As it is forecasted that the amount of data in the world is
expected to exceed 40 trillion gigabytes (40 zettabytes) by 2020,
the need for data scientists will continue to increase," said
Arjuna Chala, Senior Director, Operations, LexisNexis Risk
Solutions. "We hope this new program helps to encourage students to
build the skills and knowledge that is necessary to pursue
technology careers."
To learn more about the CodeDay and the Big Data Challenge,
please visit http://www.codeday.org.
About SRND:
Since 2009, SRND has developed and grown worldwide initiatives to
motivate students to pursue Computer Science. Its largest program,
CodeDay, has reached more than 35,000 students. SRND, a non-profit,
is headquartered in Seattle, Wash.
and runs programs in 50 cities across the US and Canada.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced
analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental
entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around
the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide
range of industries including insurance, financial services,
healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout
the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global
provider of information and analytics for professional and business
customers across industries. For more information, please visit
http://www.risk.lexisnexis.com and http://www.relx.com.
SOURCE SRND