Hitachi awards Técnico students for the third time
João Rodrigues and Soraia Batista, Telecommunications and Informatics master’s students, won the Hitachi Merit Award in Data Analysis and Integration for the 2024/2025 academic year.
The 3rd edition of the Hitachi Merit Award in Data Analysis and Integration recognised the work developed by the Telecommunications and Informatics master’s students João Rodrigues and Soraia Batista.
The award ceremony, held on 28 February at Técnico – Oeiras campus, highlighted the students’ performance in the Data Analysis and Integration curricular unit and strengthened the relationship between Técnico and Hitachi Vantara.
The challenge consisted of analysing two sets of data on the electricity distribution network in Portugal, using the Pentaho software provided by Hitachi. Five pairs of students, out of 129 eligible students, were previously selected to present their projects: Fábio Ribeiro and Daniel Costa (Group 3), João Rodrigues and Soraia Batista (Group 5), Ana Almeida and Vasco Paisana (Group 12), Daniel Carvalho and Carlos Felgueiras (Group 28) and Daniela Correia and João Paulo (Group 49).
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