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!