Welcome to the datathon/hackathon portion of the Carolina Data Challenge!
This repository will serve as a starting platform for your team's project. You can create your own repository using this as a template. Click here or the "Use this Template" button in the top right corner to generate a repository using this one as a template.
The default repository directory is as follows:
This is where you can find more information on your datasets. You may put your datasets in this folder but please keep in mind git/Github's file size limitations. Links to this year's datasets are as follows:
Healthcare
Finance
Social Science
Media
- https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/27459
- https://www.kaggle.com/cmqub19/763k-ios-app-info
To qualify for a prize, you must use one of our supplied datasets, but you may source any outside data to supplement your analysis. Additionally, to qualify for a track you must use at least one dataset from that specific track.
More info on the datasets can be found here.
This is where you can put/write code/files for your applications. You may use whatever programming language you want or use whichever statistical tools you need. Just remember that all work must be original to this hackathon.
More resources on projects here.
You can see more info on what you need to submit here. In summary, both your repository and a 5 minute video must be submitted to our Devpost for judging. In addition, you must specify which track you want to submit to.
More details and instructions on submissions here.
If you have any questions during the, either technical or logistical, be sure to reach out to a mentor and/or a director for assistance!
If you are unfamiliar with Git and/or GitHub, we highly recommend that you utilize the following resources:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| GitHub Desktop App | The GitHub desktop app makes it extremely easy to interact with repositories and visualize the changes you are making. |
| Markdown Cheat Sheet | This markdown cheat sheet will help you style and structure your readme file if you feel inclined to do so. |
| Git Fundamentals | This brief but informative guide will get you up and running with everything you need to know for your project submission in GitHub. |