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Datathon Participants Instructions

 

Dear participants, we highly appreciate your participation in Academia Datathon as challengers and we are sure that your contribution will make for another great Datathon. Please, see the participant instructions for the Academia Dathaton below. During the event your task would be to develop a data based solution to the presented case study.

 

23.04.2018

Register into the Datathon Platform

Complete your profile for matchmaking up to 25 April

Log into DSS platform

Read the presented case

Login into Data Chat

Speak with mentors and experts about the platform and the cases

25.04.2018

Team forming

27.04.2018

Check out the schedule for the opening

Register the team

Team forming if you are without a team

Create your own team channel in Data.Chat

Post your team details in article

 

28.04.2018 – Exploration day

You have the time
21:00 – Upload your draft article.

29.04.2018 – Appraisal day  

08:00 – Upload your results and publish the article.

08:00-10:00 – Semi Finals and Finalist announcement

10:30 -14:00 – Finals and closing

 

 

23.04.2018

Register into the Datathon Platform

  • Register in Datathon website.
  • The link is send via email.

The registration will go through e-mail confirmation.

Complete your profile for matchmaking up to 25 April

  • Fill-in your profile details
  • Complete your profile if you are alone and need a team .

 

Log into DSS platform

  • A confirmation email about the registration is received. Keep in mind that there might be delay for receiving it or could be in spam folder.
  • You can directly access the Log In from the home page for Academia Datathon.

https://www.datasciencesociety.net/datathon/

You should enter the platform via this page:

Read the presented case

Read the presented case and start studying the problem domain. (Got o Cases and read “ACADEMIA DATATHON CASE: THE A.I. CRYPTO TRADER”

Login into Data Chat

Once again use the link from the top panel to access the Data Chat

or enter in your browser https://ask.datasciencesociety.net

Now comes the fun part! Join the Data Chat and find your teammates there.

  • The data chat is the main place for online communication among the participants, experts and mentors. You’re familiar with Slack, this one works very similar. It is in essence Rocket Chat (help: https://rocket.chat/docs/user-guides/; App Store: / Google Play) and it also has many cool and free features like Videochat, full customization, etc.
  • If you want to install the Rocket Chat application on your mobile, you must be logged into the DSS platform first.
  • All the communications are conducted in English.
  • If you have any technical problems write in the #issues channel

Speak with mentors and experts about the platform and the cases

There are several groups which we can recommend to join, use search menu to find them:

  • #general – for general info
  • #announcements – read-only group for announcements from DSS
  • #issues – if there are problems also you can check Help -> FAQ menu on DSS site
  • #crypto(financeAI) – this is the group where the case is going to be discussed with experts and among contestants
  • #nlp_text_mining, #ml, #sna, #cv, #ai, #bio_inf – other interesting areas of our platform
  • and the most important, you are free to set up your team group and start working in private group

These channels are going to be the main place of where you will ask questions to the mentors during the Datathon.

If you are the leader of your group creating channel for your team is easy, just click on the sign (marked with red) next to the search.

To invite people in your channel write /invite @name and you will get auto suggestions.

Video and audio chat is conducted via direct messages in the group itself.

If you are a mentor or society mentor let @stephen know so he can add you into operational group #mentors-internal

25.04.2018

Team forming

Join the recomended channels and talk with the other participants, get to know them and try form a team up with them if you already don’t have one.

  • The preferable size of the team between 3 to 5 people

27.04.2018

Check out the schedule for the opening

https://www.datasciencesociety.net/datathon/#schedule

  • The updated schedule is on home page.
  • It is important to follow up the opening schedule so you can find out what is coming up immediately .
  • There will be live streaming with updates in the general Data Chat.

Register the team

Register your team until 10:00AM server time.

Team forming if you are without a team

  • Take part in Matchmaking process on Friday night (11:15-11:30 UTC) live, where you can see what DSS recommends to you.
    • Matchmaking requested applicant from their profile can see our suggestions for a teammates in #announcement channel after 11:30 (UTC) online live.
    • If someone is left out during the teaming up in the #announcement channel he/she should move to #general to pair up with other lonely participants and be proactive.

Create your own team channel in Data.Chat

      • Find each other in direct messages and appoint one of you to create the team private channel, with the most strange or funny name of your team if possible use animals 🙂
      • Select  icon with the red mark, next to the search box.

Post your team details in article

      • You need to create new article and add all team mates plus team name, case,  and mentors.
      • To create article follow this steps: from the top menu click Profile ->then My Articles (below your avatar) -> then click New Article
      • There is a template one which can be used called “Example of Team Article”.
      • The role of the mentor is to read and comment the article (your result) without editing it, while it is in private mode (Draft status).

 

 

28.04.2018 – Exploration day


You have the time:

      • Contact mentors in Data.Chat for clarification and mentorship, if needed setup audio or video call.
      • Transfer all the data into the team environment and start working.
      • There is an #issue channel for DSS platform problems which can arise
      • Fun sesions – expect surprises

21:00 – Upload your draft article.

We need your draft article in advance so we can have a general idea of your direction of work.

 

29.04.2018 – Appraisal day:

08:00  – Upload your results and publish the article.

      • Finally it cаme the time to be proud of yourselves what you did and how much you learn. We advise you to use the CRISP-DM methodology for your masterpiece 🙂
      • You need to add export from your code in Jupyter Notebook or something similar and your results. (docx, LaTeX code)
      • The main idea is that the mentor and all the jury will review the results and provide guidance, comments for evolving the solution and improving your knowledge and expertise.
      • You may provide and uploaded video of up to 3 minutes to explain some details.

08:00 – 10:00 – Semi Finals and Finalist announcement – Jury

      • This is also the time for voting for everyone else’s solution (by clicking on the upvote arrow at the solution). At the end of the competition these votes would count for the Audience award.
      • Every group gets to be judged by one mentor, one society mentor and one DSS expert.
      • The team which gets ranked at the top of their group qualifies for the final.
      • Participants are also encouraged to leave comments and questions to other articles, when they are available. You can easily compare different or similar approaches.
      • The jury vote will be based mainly on the content of the articles of the team, helped by the various scores.
      • The mentors will provide you with feedback below your article, their names will be with distinguishing color.

 

The final 8 teams are going to be announced and preparing for the final round where they need to login and present their solution.

10:30 – 14:00- Finals and closing

      • The finalist teams would have a live 3 minute presentation (over Google hangout) followed by 2 minutes Q&A session by the Jury. (10:30 – 12:30)
      • The Jury decides
      • The team with the best collective rank wins.
      • Awarding the winners (14:00)

There will be streaming for the award ceremony so keep an eye on the website, schedule and the #announcement chat for pinned messages.

 

 

 

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