DataChallenge &

Hackdays

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What is this about?



The Research Group for Geoinformatics and the Institut for Computational Life Sciences are organizing a DataChallange and subsequent hackdays in particular for BSc and MSc students at ZHAW LSFM who are interested of improving their datascience skills on a fun, small project.

How does it work?

29th April 2022
We provide you with an interesting dataset. You use your coding skills to do an exploratory analysis and come up with an idea on what you want to further explore with this data.

See dataset here
13th Mai 2022
Registration Deadline
10th June 2022
You submit this idea individually or in teams, thus taking part in the DataChallange
20th-22nd June 2022
You will pitch your idea on and listen to ideas presented by your fellow students after which you can either continue to work on your own idea or form teams with like-minded participants. You or your team will work on this idea during the Hack Days.
22nd June 2023
After completion and submission we will vote on the best implementation, thus announcing the winner of the 2022 Hackdays@N

What you will gain

  • Sharpen your datascience skills
  • Learn state-of-the-art collaboration
  • Participate in a friendly competition
  • Earn 1 ETCS playfully 1
1Currently, this only applies to Bachelor Students of the ZHAW study program Natural Resource Sciences

If you are interested in joining this this event, tell us here :



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(Deadline: 13th Mai 2022. Registration is non-binding and requires registering for a github account. Questions can be directed to Nils Ratnaweera)

We are looking forward to seeing you! All information can be found here:

DATACHALLENGE-N.GITHUB.IO
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