December 2nd 2017

Organizer: Federica B. Bianco @fedhere

Facilitators and Mentors: Brandon Reilly, Mohit Sharma

Judges:

Brittney O'Neil

Mohit Sharma

Denis Kryashchev

 Dublin changes through LIDAR
 data provided by Prof. D. Laefer, CUSP 
 Hack team: @CUSPhack/guinness 

Deliverables: automation of change detection and model to identify green areas by growth in LIDAR data

Data: LIDAR data for Dublin for 2007 and 2015

Skills: data manipulation, some image processing, willingness to learn new software packages (for reading lidar data)

Flooding NYC 
proposed by Dr. Greg Dobler 
Hack team: @CUSPhack/dem_ocratic 

Deliverables: Unbiassed predictor of flooding based on 311 reports and elevation data

Data: 311 data - NYC digital elevation model LIDAR data in NYC

Skills: data aggregation, geospatial data handling, geospatial statistics

SoNYC telemetry data 
proposed by Mohit Sharma 
Hack team: @CUSPhack/thebestteam

Deliverables: exploration of spatial and temporal correlation of down times of soNYC sensors, real time status map, timelaps map

Data: SoNYC telemetry location and time series data provided by Mohit

Skills: geospatial stats, timeseries analysis

Sexual assault sentiment analysis 
pitched by Ben Steeler @bensteeler 
Hack team: @CUSPhack/metoo  

Deliverables: visualization of sentiment from tweets, generation of a relevant word dictionary for further modeling

Data: tweets (current and historical), news sources

Skills: NLP, web scraping (to collect historical tweets), API

Modern day slavery exploration
pitched by Jon Kastelan @jkastelan 
Hack team: @CUSPhack/osprey  

Deliverables: map of modern day slavery, correlation analysis

Data: Modern day slavery data (identified by Jon Kastelan), country indicators (public data), historical events that required construction efforts from news sources

Skills: stats, geospatial visualizations

9AM (915) Pitches

945 group self assamble

10-12 hack

12-1230 pizza (while hacking)

1230-4 hack

4-5 prepare presentation

5-7 presentations

7-8 socialize and CLEAN UP!

make sure

• Data is available and identified
• Deliverable is clear
• Skills needed are stated

Work collaboratively and iteratively, set reasonable goals, spend enough time on the presentation

Presentations and notes must be uploaded on github before you present github organization: https://github.com/CUSPhack/Hack1_2017-18

Absolutely no working during the presentations: listen to the presentations your peers give!

KEEP CUSP CLEAN!