Hackathon Instructions

Submission Guidelines

Submit your project on the hackathon canvas site: Hackathon Spring 2020

Students will submit a short video no more than 10 minutes, code and any reference materials to canvas. We will post more details related to the hackathon canvas site next week.

  • The video should be a brief introduction followed by a voiceover of the model, results, and recommendations.
  • The video will be recorded over Zoom.
  • Upload your recorded zoom video to Panopto. Panopto is a university-provided tool for hosting and sharing video.
  • Submit Panopto link, code, and related materials to the hackathon canvas site.
  • A panel of judges will review the materials and winners will be announced via email.

Please review these detailed submission instructions. This walks through the process of recording your video, uploading it to Panopto, and submitting your entire project to canvas.

Evaluation Criteria

Make sure that your presentation addresses the following points.

Constructs Content
Problem Statement Identify the main topic and sub components
Project Purpose
  • Identify the primary objectives and purpose
  • Support the purpose with relevant context
  • Describe the data set(s) including imitations, unit of analysis, time window for feature, model engineering, validation and development samples (as needed)
Methodology Describe the tools used to understand the relevant structure in data

Provide a clear description of modeling framework including:

  • Model selection justification
  • Model descriptions
  • Feature engineering/transformations
  • Model engineering /development
  • Validation methodology
Results Address research objectives and provide:

    • Presentation synthesis
    • Logical Assumptions
    • Descriptive analytics
    • Visual storytelling

Modeling Results:

    • Model Performance
    • Validation Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Actionable recommendations
  • Outlined limitations
  • Considerations for next steps
  • Proposed future extensions