Microsoft Big Data Hackathon - March 13-14

You’re invited!

The Microsoft Big Data Hackathon is your opportunity to hack for a good cause.  Assemble a team, learn, share, and make new friends as you use big data technologies to solve real-world problems.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/cansql/archive/2015/01/28/big-data-hackathon-in-mississauga-bdh.aspx  

Who should attend

This event is open to anyone interested in Big Data, BI and Data Visualization:

·         Data Scientists

·         Developers and Programmers

·         Data Architects

·         Anyone interested in learning about Microsoft’s big data technologies

Technologies covered

·         Power BI and Excel

·         Azure HDInsight (Hadoop)

·         Azure Machine Learning

·         SQL Server

Contest and prizes

Attendees will self-organize into teams of 3-5 members and participate in the Big Data Hackathon contest.

Each team will be given 24 hours to select and solve a specific data science problem using Microsoft tools and then present the project to the judges.

Two winners will be chosen in two categories (one winning team per category):

1) Data Modeling* – a team should produce a model to prove or disprove a relationship with the data; and

2) Data Visualization** - a team should create a visualization to represent the data.

There will be $2,000 in prizes for winning teams ***

We will have Microsoft, Partner and Community experts on-hand giving presentations, running Q&A sessions and to assist groups with their projects.