Data Scientist Hackathon - Internet of Elephants

In collaboration with http://www.internetofelephants.com/

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Data Science Hackathon Internet of Elephants

Do you like to program to reach your goal and still be able to collaborate in a team?

Do you like to use visualization to communicate the results?

Do you like to contribute to Wildlife Conservation?

When: Saturday 2 July 2016

Costs: Free!

Where: B.Amsterdam, Johan Huizingalaan 763a, 1066 VH Amsterdam

Background
Internet of Elephants (http://www.internetofelephants.com/#goal) owns unique data sets through their partnerships with organizations in Kenya. They have access to the GPS data of a variety of wild animals that are being tracked for research purposes. Historically, this type of data has only been used by scientists and researchers. Till now this data is an untapped asset and can be probably be used to keep people around the globe more engaged with Wildlife Conservation

Internet of Elephants is interested in the insights and predictions that a group of talented Data Scientists could bring to develop games for fun and education with rewards, so they can multiply the number of wildlife enthusiasts around the world and an independency of traditional fund raising. So the challenge is to create models that will help to predict how simple games might be played and what the results will be.

Agenda

After a brief opening by Gautam Shah, you'll quickly get to work. At the end of the day the results will be presented to a jury. The jury selects a winner.

09:30 Coffee
10:00 Introduction
10:10 Start Hackathon Yes! So join us: link to meetupand group formation
10:30 Start in groups
13:00 Lunch & Drinks

17:30 Pizza

20.00 Plenary wrap-up to the jury
21:00 Drinks
22:00 End

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Food & Drinks (including Coffee) ready!