“Mathematics and Big Data”
- The theme for this year’s SMS Essay Competition is “Mathematics and Big Data”. Machine learning, data mining, data analytics, data visualization and information security are some of the key components of Big Data that use Mathematics as their basis and they are being applied significantly in finance, transportation, social media, healthcare, education, sports and entertainment.
- The main objectives of this year’s competition are to expose the students to the novel field of data science and to let the students discover applications of Mathematics in various aspects of Big Data.
- We also hope that through this competition, students can get a feel for inter-disciplinary research.
Category A
| 1st | Big Data and Topographical Data Analysis Soh Yong Xiang Tan Jen Han Tan Jia Jun Shaun Hwa Chong Institution |
| 2nd | The World of Big Data and Mathematics Lum Jie Qi Steffi Sarah Soon Hui En Seet Seow Chee Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) |
| 3rd | Big Data Analytics – Predicting Traffic Levels in Smart Cities Using Machine Learning and IoTs Guru Anand Anish St Joseph’s Institution |
Category B
| 1st | Mathematics and Big Data Han Jiatao Jerry Raffles Institution |
| 2nd | Walking into the Mathematics behind Big Data “Data is the new currency in the brave new digital world” Regina Limanta Megan Png Jing Ting Paya Lebar MGS (Secondary) |
| 3rd | An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Significance of Data Mining and Information Security Ng Shen Ray Ng Jun Rui Max Wu Wen Jie Hwa Chong Institution |
Catergory C
| 1st | Airline overbooking with mathematics and Big Data Jovon Lim Jun Wei Hu Xingyi, Xavier Goh Jia Qing Victoria Junior College |
| 2nd | The use of Markov chain for search optimisation in the world of Big Data Ivan Feng Jun Ka Wayne Yeo Wei Zhong Gao Changxiang Victoria Junior College |
| 3rd | Linear regression and its applications in Big Data Nguyen Tuan Dung Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) |