Interactive Business Dashboard Competition

The 4th Annual Interactive Business Dashboard Competition - Results

The 4th Interactive Dashboard Competition, co-sponsored by UWCISA and the ISACA Toronto Chapter started with 70 teams (all 452 AFM112 students) and 25 teams advanced to the second round. In the third and final round, held December 15, the top three teams presented their dashboards to a panel of industry and academic experts: Sherry Au (Sr Manager - Audit Analytics Centre of Excellence at the Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat), Edbert Oey (Data Analytics Consultant) and Jenny Oh (Fraud Research & Analytics Manager at RBC).

The winning team was awarded a prize of $1,000, generously contributed by ISACA’s Toronto Chapter. Congratulations to the winning team members; Riley, C., Sunny J., Richard, S., Sanjay K., and Nathan, B.  Their dashboard is shown below.

Winning team dashboad and photos

Second place went to team members: Wyatt, L., Sydney, B., Aman, S., Karushan, J., and Rustam, A. and their dashboard is shown below. 

Team 27 dashboard

Third place went to team members; Lirit L., Lamisa, K., Darnisa R., and Nicholas, L. and their dashboard is shown below.

Team 65 dashboard image wide

This competition is co-sponsored by ISACA Toronto Chapter.

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2022 the 3rd Annual Interactive Business Dashboard Competition - Results

The 3rd Interactive Dashboard Competition, co-sponsored by UWCISA and the ISACA Toronto Chapter started with 91 teams (all 452 AFM112 students) and 24 teams advanced to the second round.  In the third round, the top five teams presented their dashboards to a panel of industry and academic experts: Mr. Behram Faroogh, Retired Partner, Risk Assurance Services, PwC & Board member ISACA Toronto Chapter; Mr. Edbert Oey, Consultant, Analytics8; and Prof. Laila Rohani, SAF, University of Waterloo. 

The first prizeof $1000 sponsored by the ISACA Toronto Chapterwent to team 73.  Congratulationsto the winning team members; Kinza I., Ally M., Irtiza M., Hamza S., and Abiraa T.!

You can view the winning team's dashboard below.

2022 Dashboard competition winners

This competition is co-sponsored by ISACA Toronto Chapter.

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2021 2nd Annual Interactive Business Dashboard Competition - Results

Approximately 570 first year students from the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) at the University of Waterloo, organized in 117 crews/teams, competed in the 2nd annual UW CISA interactive performance dashboard competition. Crews had to develop an interactive business dashboard for TTS, a toy store retailer that operates 20 stores from Maryland to Maine. Teams had to leverage one year’s worth of data (over 4.5 million records) to build their dashboard. The main objective of the dashboard was to enable the management of TTS to monitor the company's performance in four key areas: gross profits, revenues, cost of goods sold, and operating profits.

The top ten teams presented their dashboards (pictured below) to a panel of judges consisting of SAF faculty members: Prof. Efrim Boritz, Prof. Nancy Vanden Bosch, Prof. Adam Presslee; and Mr. Edbert Oey, Analytics Engineer, RVezy.

Top ten dashboards

Congratulations to first prize winners Mads C., Katarina M., Kaitlyn S., John Y., and Leo C. They will share the $1000.00 prize. You can view their dashboard below or full presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0IeKC1fpE

2021 dashboard competition winners
  • Second place went went to the members of team 98: Cole D., Aniket J., Rachel N., and Sisi S.
  • Third place went to the members of team 87: Eric Chen Z., Bonita H., Anaika R., Jomel R., and Rachel Elise W.

The data set for the 2021 2nd annual UW CISA interactive performance dashboard competition was provided by the HUB of Analytics Education (https://www.hubae.org/about-us/). A non-profit organization that provides open educational resources to faculty around the globe.

This competition is co-sponsored by ISACA Toronto Chapter.

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2020 Interactive Business Dashboard Competition - Results

Approximately 400 first year students from the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) at the University of Waterloo, organized in 82 crews/teams, competed for the inaugural UW CISA interactive performance dashboard competition. Crews had to develop an interactive business dashboard for a wine and liquor retailer. The main of objective of the dashboard is to enable store managers to drill down and understand the effect of the lockdown on the relative performance of their store. All teams started with the same data set, which has daily sales transactions from 12 stores for March 2018, March 2019, and March 2020.

  • The winner of the competition was crew 29. The members of the crew will share the top prize of $500.00. Congratulations to: Ilhaan J., Asher Jing Fei M., Jasdip Singh M., Jasmita P., and Jackson Y.
2020 dashboard competition winners picture

A screenshot of their dashboard is shown below.

winning dashboard
  • The second prize went to the members of team 34: Sarah Kristen B., Alexander K., Farhan S., William D T., and Christopher Richard Kar-Wing Y.
  • The third prize went to team 42: Justin C., Michelle G., Ivan H., James K., and Gordon L.
  • The fourth prize goes to team 50: Amar A., Mahek Kaur G., Ajay N., Justin Quan Lok Heen Q., and Nathaniel Y.
  • The fifth prize went to team 56: Michael Joshua S., Tim S., Manan V., Boris Y., and Vivian Z.

The 2020 case/competition was based on materials of Chapter 12 of T.C. Stratopoulos & N. Vanden Bosch, Analytic Methods for Business – I: Introduction to Data Analytics Process with Spreadsheets and R, 2020, Waterloo, ON.

This competition is co-sponsored by ISACA Toronto Chapter.

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