Global Data Science Hackathon - Canberra Event

Pizza Lunch on Sunday and Tea/Coffee/Softdrinks are being provided by EMC/Greenplum. Participants should bring their own food for other meals and snacks as required. Please RSVP so we can get catering right :)

We'll meet up before the competition kicks off to do introductions and discuss how we will approach the competition. If you can be on site from about 9.30pm that would be great. I'll be around from about 9pm ish if you want to arrive a bit earlier.

Felix

24 hours of non-stop Data Science; It started in London but we're participating in Canberra!

Full prize/data announcement Tuesday... in the meanwhile:

The predictive modelling task will revolve around building the best early-warning model to address a public issue that effects people all over the world. Participants can use the main dataset (which will be small enough to be manageable on their personal machine), as well as any large publicly available data that they think is relevant, and any software tools they wish. Amazon web services will be donating vouchers for high capacity EC2 instances, which will have R Studio Server and Greenplum tools installed.

Details

Data Science London (http://datasciencehackathon.com/about-data-science-london-ds_ldn/) in partnership with Big Data Week (http://www.bigdataweek.com) is organizing the first global data hackathon from 10pm Apr 28 to 10pm Apr 29 Canberra time - to coincide with events in Sydney, Melbourne, London, San Francisco and around the world.

The competition will be hosted on Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com), so anyone, from anywhere in the world, can participate. You can download the data, hack along with the data scientists in London, see your ranking on the real time leader board, and be eligible to win the global prize.

Let's see what the world’s data hackers can do together!

Event Details

Are You a Smart Data Scientist? Participate in this Hackful Event. 24 Hours of Non-Stop, Fun Data Science Competition.

The aim of the hackathon is to promote Data Science and show the world what is possible today combining Data Science with Open Source, Hadoop, Machine Learning, and Data Mining tools.

In addition, the event’s aim is also to promote the sense of community, team work, and free spirit competition for the sake of Data Science.

Who: Hackers, computer scientists, programmers, mathematicians, statisticians, econometricians, data miners, YOU!

What: Use your smarts to compete against teams from around the world and win the title of "Global Data Science Hackathon Winner 2012" as well as some great prizes!

When: The venue opens from 8.30 pm on Saturday 28 April, and the competition kicks off at 10pm Canberra time on Saturday 28 April.

You then have 24 hours to hack the data and win! Throughout the competition, there will be a live leaderboard (the competition is hosted by kaggle.com (http://kaggle.com/))

Where: Register for the meetup event http://meetup.com/DSCanberra/events/57837482/ (nb registration is required but free!)

Why: For fun - a chance to test your skills against the best and participate in a global event!

How: Register on the address above and get your laptop ready for some serious data science hacking!

We will provide the venue and internet access. You bring a laptop and your data science hacking smarts! During the competition, we will be running venue based mini-events, talks and competitions. And we will have a video-hookup with other venues around the world!

Venue Update

We're proud to announce our venue! Thanks to the support of The Faculty of Education and The Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering at the University of Canberra, the Canberra event for the Global Data Science Hackathon will be held at the incredible Inspire Centre for ICT Education on the University of Canberra Campus.

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Please note - registration through Meetup.com is required to participate in the event so that we can meet OH&S and IT requirements. Thank you!