As part of Spark + AI Summit 2020, we invite you to join forces with your fellow data scientists, engineers and analysts to collaborate and innovate for social good.
Three finalist teams will be selected and announced during the Spark + AI Summit 2020 keynote and will have the opportunity to direct a donation to the charity of their choice. The grand-prize-winning team will award a charity with a $20,000 donation, receive free training and VIP passes to the June 22–26 Spark + AI Summit as well as complimentary passes to a future Spark + AI Summit.
Join our hackathon slack find your team, ask questions and engage with mentors!
WHEN PLANNING YOUR HACKATHON PROJECT, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FOCUS ON ONE OF THESE THREE ISSUES:
1: Provide greater insights into the COVID-19 pandemic
With the current concerns over SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, there are now available various COVID-19 datasets on Databricks, Kaggle and GitHub as well as competitions such as the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19). Diving into these datasets and joining this with other public sources may provide greater insight into the correlations, causes, or potential solutions to logistics issues (e.g. PPE utilization, hospital readmission rates, ICU bed availability, etc.).
You can use any data sets you wish, but here are some ideas:
- South Korea COVID-19 Dataset
- 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE
- COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
These datasets, amongst others, are available for easy access on the free Databricks Community Edition.
2. Reduce the Impact of Climate Change
Does Greta Thunberg inspire you to help preserve the planet? Write an application or perform an analysis that gives insights into the causes or solutions for climate change.
You can use any data sets you wish, but here are some ideas:
- NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit
- CO2 emissions from PANGAEA
- Satellite Imagery Data (to detect coastlines, etc)
3: Drive Social Change in your Community
What challenges do you see where you live and work? Check out a local city dataset and affect change close to home.
You can use any data sets you wish, but here are some ideas:
General Data Sources
- Google Research has created the Dataset Search tool
- Registry of Open Data on AWS
Awards:-
$51,800 in prizes
Grand Prize Winning Team
The top team will be announced during the keynote at the Spark + AI Summit. That team will have the opportunity to choose a charity that will receive a $20,000 donation in their honor. Each member of the team will also receive free training and VIP passes to the June 22–26 Spark + AI Summit and a conference pass + one free training course to a future Spark + AI Summit of their choice within the next five years.
2nd Place Winning Team
The 2nd place team will be announced during the keynote at the Spark + AI Summit. That team will have the opportunity to choose a charity that will receive a $10,000 donation in their honor. Each member of the team will also receive free training and VIP passes to the June 22–26 Spark + AI Summit and a conference pass to a future Spark + AI Summit of their choice within the next five years.
3rd Place Winning Team
The 3nd place team will be announced during the keynote at the Spark + AI Summit. That team will have the opportunity to choose a charity that will receive a $5,000 donation in their honor. Each member of the team will also receive free training and VIP passes to the June 22–26 Spark + AI Summit.
Deadline:- 12-06-2020
