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DATAHACK
You don't have to be a data scientist,
or to have a team! What are you waiting for? :)
Registration closes on September 8th!
What is DataHack?
DataHack is the first data-driven hackathon in Israel, designed to bring together the Israeli data community. The hackathon is a 48-hours event where data enthusiatic programmers, designers and researchers combine their skills to build innovative solutions for real world problems.
Registration is open to all, but applications will be carefully reviewed for skills and experience. Participants may form teams of up to 5 people, and will have complete freedom selecting data, tools, and project ideas.
Information for participants
Participants will be chosen based on experience, skills and diversity criteria. Here are the basics:
Location
Hansen House - Center for Design, Media and Technology. Gdalyahu Alon 14, Jerusalem.
Theme
DataHack is all about data. Every project is required to have processing and/or analysis of some interesting data at its core. It can be a machine learning algorithm, a statistical analysis or producing deep insights automatically with data mining techniques.
Date
The event will take place between Wednesday, 15:30, September 21st and Friday, 13:30, September 23rd, 2016.
Participation
Registration to the event is open to all - students, researches, designers and industry professionals. Teams of up to 5 people may register.
Register here!
Data
We will provide you with different data sets from our sponsors, partners and online sources, but you are free to bring your own data. Have a data-related question?
Contact our data team at data@datahack-il.com
Community
Besides a yearly hackathon, DataHack is also a vibrant community of data scientists and machine learning experts in which you can take part through our Facebook page, the DataTalks meetup series and our newsletter!
Hackathon
awards
place
6000 NIS
place
3000 NIS
place
1500 NIS
Best social impact
project award
Intel Israel will be giving an ASUS ZenPad 10 tablet to each member of the team whose project most effectively utilizes machine learning or data science to address a social issue!
Chalanges
awards
- Final -
Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones (for each team member)
- Wix -
Amazon Echo (for each team member)
- Windward -
Coming soon!
Best solo
project award
The person in charge of the best solo project of DataHack 2016 will win one of Varidesk's adjustable standing desks!
The Judges
Prof. Yair Weiss
Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Naftali Tishbi
Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science & The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Waks Zeev
Senior Data Scientist,
Intel Advanced Analytics
Yaniv Feldman
Editor in Chief & COO,
Geektime
Dr. Yuval Benjamini
Department of Statistics,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Josh Gottesman
Partnerships Manager,
MassChallenge Israel
- Challenges
- Data sets
Challenges
Some of our sponsors will provide you with specific prize challenges. Check them out!
Data sets
Teams participating in DataHack are free to use any data set open for public use or for which they have free access. However, we also want to offer you a curated list of data sets for you to consider.
Data Challenges
Some of our sponsors will provide you with specific prize challenges.
A taxi goes from Chinatown to Times Square. How long will it take to arrive?
Try and predict user behavior on the Wix platfrom from user action history.
Love the oceans? Try and make sense of data on ship movement worldwide.
Check them out!
Sponsors
