Hacking Science Hackathon on Jan 21, 2013

We’re happy to announce the first Hacking Science Hackathon to be held on January 21, 2013 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day).

The Hacking Science Hackathon is going to be a one day event where ad hoc teams of programmers and scientists work together to solve interesting problems of their choice. You might be looking for an interesting programming challenge; or have an interesting data set that you’d like to work on with other people; or have been looking for an opportunity to build a tool with others that helps you deal with data mining, analysis, visualization: this hackathon is for you.

Free food / drinks will be provided, and the day will be interspersed with short presentations on various practical topics (e.g. using git / Github, R, viz tools such as processing, D3.js, gephi etc.)

We’ll send out more information soon (location, logistics, registration etc.) but for now please save the date.

Also, if you have ideas on how to make this event a success, i.e. if you want to provide a short demo during the day on any topic, or if you have data you’d like others to work with, or want to contribute in any other way: please do get in touch at hackingscience@psu.edu.

Leave a Reply


Skip to toolbar