Third Annual Bio-Data Club Hackathon

Registration for the Bio-Data Club's Third Annual Hackathon is now open! You can register using this form: https://forms.gle/2ejXxdk4q8oT6XkJ6 . The hackathon will commence virtually on Thursday December 9th 2021 at 9am and conclude with virtual project presentations on December 10th at 3pm. The hackathon GitHub page (https://github.com/pstew/biodataclub/tree/master/meetings/2021-12_hackathon) has more information including descriptions of the projects and the tentative schedule. The list of projects for this year’s hackathon can be found here: https://github.com/pstew/biodataclub/blob/master/meetings/2021-12_hackathon/Project_descriptions.md .

A hackathon is an event in which participants come together to build a software product during a short period of time. Here is a short article describing what you can expect: https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/technology/blog/what-is-a-hackathon/. Last year’s hackathon (https://github.com/pstew/biodataclub/tree/master/meetings/2020-12_hackathon) featured 55 participants working collaboratively on 7 projects. Like last year, projects featured in this year's hackathon all have potential benefits for Moffitt.

This will be a fun event and we encourage everyone to sign up! The event will be very low stakes, and we encourage friendly competition between teams. Some programming background in any language is recommended but not required. If you are not confident in your programming skills, then there may be non-programming tasks such as finding validation datasets, cleaning data, creating figures, or creating slides for the results presentation that will still allow you to participate.

Please register by Monday, December 6th at 12pm or you may not be able to participate. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Bio-Data Club 2021 Hackathon Organizing Committee
(Anders Berglund, Rodrigo Carvajal, Jordan Creed, Guillermo Gonzalez-Calderon, Jose Laborde, Richie Reich, Paul Stewart)