DataOrbit 2025 is a 36-hour hackathon at UC Santa Barbara bringing together innovators, coders, and data enthusiasts to craft impactful solutions powered by data. Over an action-packed weekend, participants will collaborate, compete, and learn, developing projects that tackle real-world, open-ended challenges while diving into the latest advancements in data science, AI, and technology.
Please register to attend through this separate registration form!
NOTE: All U.S. college students are welcome to attend DataOrbit; however, travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered or arranged.
Requirements
- Record a 5 minute presentation with a project overview. You should discuss:
- Your data
- Project inspiration
- What methods did you use? How did you explore the data?
- Findings and results
- Any presentations longer than 5 minutes will be penalized.
- Provide a link to your GitHub, including all of your original code.
- Create a submission on this DevPost.
All projects must be started on Saturday, 2/22 and submitted by Sunday, 2/23 at 5PM PST. Late submissions will not be considered.
Prizes
Best Overall
Runner Up
Social Good Award
Predictive Modeling Award
Natural Language Processing Award
Data Visualization and Insights Award
Best Use of Groq
Sports Analytics Award
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Kara Godshalk
Director of Customer Insights, Pacific Life
Matt White
Executive Director, PyTorch
Venkata Vamshi Krishna Gunji
Data Scientist, Workday
Rupesh Dabbir
Engineering Manager, Google
Alex Peng
Growth Engineer, SingleStore
Pratik Karki
Co-Founder and CTO, Anthromind
Aditya Kartikeya
Technical Staff, Oracle
Tomoyuki Ichiba
PSTAT Chair, Professor
Kathleen M Coburn
Professor
Ziad Matni
Professor
Andrew Carter
Professor
Suraj Sinha
Sr. Manager Data Science, Workday
Uma Ravat
Professor
Judging Criteria
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Relevance
Did the team use appropriate models, tools, etc. for the problem? -
Completeness
How finished is the project? -
Applicability
How well does the project address its given problem? Is the project suitable for the track? -
Presentation
How clearly does the team communicate the results of their project? How engaging is their presentation (visuals, speaking, etc.)? -
Creativity
How unique, novel, ambitious, or creative is the team’s solution?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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