First 2017/18-cohort CUSP hackathon
December 2nd 2017
Organizer: Federica B. Bianco @fedhere
Facilitators and Mentors: Brandon Reilly, Mohit Sharma
Judges:
Brittney O'Neil
Mohit Sharma
Denis Kryashchev
Hack Pitches :
Dublin changes through LIDAR
data provided by Prof. D. Laefer, CUSP
Hack team: @CUSPhack/guinness
Deliverables: automation of change detection and model to identify green areas by growth in LIDAR data
Data: LIDAR data for Dublin for 2007 and 2015
Skills: data manipulation, some image processing, willingness to learn new software packages (for reading lidar data)
Flooding NYC
proposed by Dr. Greg Dobler
Hack team: @CUSPhack/dem_ocratic
Deliverables: Unbiassed predictor of flooding based on 311 reports and elevation data
Data: 311 data - NYC digital elevation model LIDAR data in NYC
Skills: data aggregation, geospatial data handling, geospatial statistics
SoNYC telemetry data
proposed by Mohit Sharma
Hack team: @CUSPhack/thebestteam
Deliverables: exploration of spatial and temporal correlation of down times of soNYC sensors, real time status map, timelaps map
Data: SoNYC telemetry location and time series data provided by Mohit
Skills: geospatial stats, timeseries analysis
Sexual assault sentiment analysis
pitched by Ben Steeler @bensteeler
Hack team: @CUSPhack/metoo
Deliverables: visualization of sentiment from tweets, generation of a relevant word dictionary for further modeling
Data: tweets (current and historical), news sources
Skills: NLP, web scraping (to collect historical tweets), API
Modern day slavery exploration
pitched by Jon Kastelan @jkastelan
Hack team: @CUSPhack/osprey
Deliverables: map of modern day slavery, correlation analysis
Data: Modern day slavery data (identified by Jon Kastelan), country indicators (public data), historical events that required construction efforts from news sources
Skills: stats, geospatial visualizations
Rules and agenda
Schedule
9AM (915) Pitches
945 group self assamble
10-12 hack
12-1230 pizza (while hacking)
1230-4 hack
4-5 prepare presentation
5-7 presentations
7-8 socialize and CLEAN UP!
Rules to submit a pitch
make sure
- Data is available and identified
- Deliverable is clear
- Skills needed are stated
Rules for hackers
Work collaboratively and iteratively, set reasonable goals, spend enough time on the presentation
Presentations and notes must be uploaded on github before you present github organization: https://github.com/CUSPhack/Hack1_2017-18
Absolutely no working during the presentations: listen to the presentations your peers give!
KEEP CUSP CLEAN!