About this event
MENTORS NEEDED
What is a mentor? Anyone that is interested in helping a team of Belmont students (novice to proficient). We need individuals that know how run and scope a project, understand data, visualizations, and/or code for modeling. We expect the data to be clean, since this is only a 7 hour hackathon.
Are you someone that loves to play with data and loves to help students? Then we would love to have you as a mentor.
Join us for the first Belmont Data Collaborative data hackathon. This data hackathon will look at The Branch food bank data and your task is to provide insights and models that help to spark something interesting that will help The Branch understand how they can help provide more services to their residents.
What is it:
A data hackathon that looks to use the the Branch Food Bank data to determine additional services for their resident families.
Who can attend:
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Participants: All Belmont Students from every major and college. We want the novice, the curious, and the seasoned hacker.
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Mentors: Anyone IT professional that wants to hang with our students and help them create a data story. We really need Project Management mentors.
Who is involved in hosting:
- Belmont Data Collaborative - the new big initiative on campus to infuse data skills into every major.
- Belmont Data Experience - a student organization at Belmont University
- The Branch Food Bank
- Amazon is the presenting sponsor
What you get:
- T-Shirt and other swag
- Food - light breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be served
- Prizes for best insights including Yeti-style cups and other items
- An opportunity to hack with some data
Timeline: (Mentors do not have to stay the whole time.)
- 9:00AM to 4:00PM
- 9:00AM – open doors – some light snacks and coffee
- 9:30AM – Introduction to the problem and data
- 10:00AM – Groups are formed and start working
- 12:00PM – Lunch will be served
- 1:00PM – Summary of groups and final instructions on what is needed for presentations
- 3:00PM – Presentations start and awards
- 4:00PM – Conclusion of the data hackathon
What is a data hackathon?
A data hackathon is a free form event, where everyone starts with the same data, hears the same problems or objectives with the data, and then gets into groups and uses software and apps to build their case for meeting those objectives. It could be through the use of Excel, Tableau, Python, or the JuiceBox app, which will be provided by our partner Juice Analytics.
