Theme
'Creative Data Manipulation"
A break from the past week of algorithmic trading, more of a usual hackathon style where you spend the day building an MVP!
Project Ideas
invent a brand new statistic for a domain that doesn't have one. Elo ratings for restaurants based on head-to-head Yelp review text
finding a dataset and compressing it as aggressively as possible while preserving the ability to answer a set of questions
meta-project: instrument the hackathon itself. Track commit frequency, Slack activity, caffeine consumption, ambient noise levels, and build a live dashboard predicting which team will win based on their work patterns
apply survival/hazard models to something absurd: how long until a TikTok trend dies, how long a new restaurant lasts in NYC, time-to-first-bug in a GitHub repo
take two completely unrelated public datasets (e.g., earthquake magnitudes and Spotify top charts) and find the most compelling (or absurd) spurious correlations
Schedule
10am: Event Kickoff
12pm: Lunch Break
1pm: Hacking!
6pm: Judging
7pm: Pizza!
7:30pm: Ending credits
8pm: Networking and Beers!
Requirements
Add pictures, github repo (strongly preferred), and anything else to make the judges lives easier!
Note they will only have ~3 mins per submission to look over your work!
Prizes
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
Credits
£10,0000 in Claude Credits, split among the top three teams
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Bella
Entrepreneurs First
Bob Deforce
Anthropic
Daryna
Entrepreneurs First
Grace
Jane Street
Peter Devlin
Hummingbird VC
Mashrur Khondokar
Bank of America
Judging Criteria
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Creative Data Manipulation
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