Data Storytelling Hackathon - Bangalore
Details
Storytelling events are aimed at improving the ability to narrate insights from data analysis. Participants can pick up a dataset from a curated list , form a team & hack away!
For October, teams can pick any data related to movies.
Here's a suggestive list of movie related datasets;
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IMDB Data - https://datasets.imdbws.com/ , more about the data at https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/
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Screenplays, Summaries etc https://github.com/EdinburghNLP/scriptbase
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Movie posters https://www.kaggle.com/neha1703/movie-genre-from-its-poster/version/3
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Oscar nominees & winners https://datahub.io/rufuspollock/oscars-nominees-and-winners
The output could be in any format - jupyter notebook, slide deck, video, infographic, comic strip etc.
Teams get to present their work at the end of the day and receive feedback from a review panel.
Presentation format:
2 mins to present,
1 min for Q&A,
1 min for feedback.
Participants need to bring their laptop and other accessories.
Agenda:
9:45 AM -- Arrive in time for registration.
10:00 AM -- Orientation, teams formation.
10:30 - 11:00 AM -- Teams pick a dataset based on the theme 'movies'.
11:00 AM to noon -- Find insights.
Noon to 4 pm -- Work on drafting the data story + additional insights.
4:00 to 5:00 pm -- Finalize Data Story output.
5:15 pm to 6:15 pm -- Presentations.
6:15 pm to 7:00 pm -- Hang around for discussions.
Registration -- 2nd floor in Bangalore office. Please read `How to find us` section below for directions.
Communication via Slack (https://gramenerhackathon.slack.com). Sign-up if you haven't already: https://join.slack.com/t/gramenerhackathon/shared_invite/enQtNzkyNTk2MjEzNTI3LWZiNTEyMjA5ZWExZTJjMDQ3Zjg2MDIxMGQyYmY5ZWY3ZDU2NDM4ZGJhOGE1YWE3ZGNmZDU3YjUxYmRkMDMxMjE
Gramener provides the workspace, Internet, snacks to the participants.
We curated a small list of visualization tools here: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-EkjzkhLt/messages/boards/thread/52301438/#132035339
Sponsor - Gramener Inc, https://gramener.com/.