Thanks for participating in the challenge. We've had a great response and I'm excited to see what you all can come up with.
General information about the global challenge is up on the Big Data Week site.
The hackathon will run from noon on Saturday to 8PM on Sunday, though teams are free to come and go (and work remotely) as they see fit. The Biltmore will be locked over the weekend, so you will need someone on your team or on staff to let you in. Please use the West Peachtree entrance; we will be keeping it open around the start of the event.
We'll be providing pizza, snacks and refreshments throughout the event.
You are free to manage your team however you see fit, but I'd encourage each team to start a repo under the atl-bigdataweek organization and share their results. Team captains should see me about getting admin access to manage their team. Note that competitive teams should consist of no more than 5 people.
Entries for the global competition must be submitted by 15:00 GMT / 10:00 AM local time. See the submission details.
The Atlanta local competition will be open until 8PM, so teams can continue to polish their work and compete for $PRIZES. Judging critera for both competitions will be the same.
If there are any problems, contact
Maria Stephens
maria.stephens@me.com
770.910.2184
or
James Dabbs
jamesdabbs@gmail.com
401.402.4836
Please call responsibly.
Feel free to contribute new sets to this repo or use your own data sets. If not, try:
This is the data set provided by the organizers of the global Big Data Challenge. It contains comprehensive statistics about a range of public health concerns, including medical, fire, police, school, and traffic records. I'd encourage you to connect and poke around the table schema to see what all is available.
host: 37.48.241.30
port: 3306 (the default)
username: virtual
password: leeds2013
database name: bigdataweek
The full 6.4GB mysql dump is available on S3 as well.
Open Atlanta has a few data sets available. Particularly relevant might be the Civic Health Data set.