Students of the Degree in Business Data Analytics (BDatA) present their predictions to Bilbao Port on the activity in 2022
Students of the Degree in Business Data Analytics (BDatA) present their predictions to Bilbao Port on the activity in 2022
Students of the Degree in Business Data Analytics (BDatA) present their predictions to Bilbao Port on the activity in 2022
The students have made a prediction of traffic in 2022 for seven selected countries and for this they have had, for three months, the collaboration of the Port Authority and PortLab, its innovation hub
The third generation of students of the Business Data Analytics degree that Mondragon Unibertsitatea teaches at its Zorrozaurre campus is already underway. In its second challenge, this group of 45 students has carried out a project sponsored by the Port of Bilbao and whose objective was to predict the traffic in the Port in the year 2022 from the perspective of different countries. To do so, the Port Authority has provided them with statistical data from the last fifteen years and have had macro indicators for each country.
Last Wednesday, December 15, the students of the degree went to the facilities of the Port Authority of Bilbao in Santurtzi to present the results they had achieved. Gathered in teams, each group was assigned a country with a strong trade relationship with the port of Bilbao and the work focused on making an adequate characterization of the country and the type of products that, with origin or destination the country indicated, are loaded and unloaded through the port of Bilbao. Based on the understanding of the current situation, the students used their analytical knowledge to make predictions of how this relationship will evolve in 2022.
Thus, with all the work deployed, the students have discovered data as relevant as the fact that the port of Bilbao is the main maritime gateway of the United Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula or that it is a port with extraordinary land connections and great draft to receive any type of vessel.
"The port infrastructure is a great generator of data and has enormous possibilities to develop high value projects in the field of analytics. For all these reasons, we thank the Port for its collaboration and willingness and we hope to repeat this collaboration in the future" highlighted those responsible for the Degree in Business Data Analytics.
For the port managers, "we have been impressed to see groups that, at 18 years old, understand the case perfectly, defend their arguments always with data, have a clear common thread and, in some cases, even make suggestions for improvement. It has been, without a doubt, an enriching experience on both sides. The university students have approached the port environment in a practical and innovative way, and we have approached them and learned together".