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Professor Charlie Apigian, standing, interim director of the MTSU Data Science Institute, is leading a team of students and mentors in a “big data” consulting project for Nashville-based Hytch LLC, the social impact technology company behind the Hytch Rewards platform. Pictured with Apigian, clockwise from bottom, are Nick Matala, a Master of Science in Information Systems major with a concentration in Business Intelligence and Analytics; Christopher Walsh, a senior majoring in Business in Information Systems; Rob Harrigan, Ph.D., who’s mentoring the team and is a senior machine learning engineer within the Applied Machine Learning Group at CBS Interactive; Brandon Boshers, a Master of Science in Information Systems major with a concentration in Business Intelligence and Analytics; Apigian; and Kiran Donthula, a doctoral student majoring Computational Science. (Submitted photo)