This past weekend was UP-Stat 2015, and with it was this year’s data competition. I keeping with this year’s theme of “statistical modeling in the era of data science,” this year’s data competition was an analysis of traffic data collected from the intersection of Culver Road and East Main Street in Rochester, NY. I decided to take a stab at analyzing the data with my friends Matthew Taylor and Tom Hartvigsen, and our analysis was presented as a finalist at the conference!

Feel free to read our report. If you are interest in our analysis or the competition data, it is available on github.