Music Data Science Hackathon
Event Info
Description
Joins us for a fun, hackful, and exciting 24h, non-stop Data Science event.
When: Saturday, 21st of July 2012
Where: The Hub Westminster, First floor, New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, SW1Y 4TE , London 020 7148 6720http://hubwestminster.net/space
What: A community event. Meet data geeks and music geeks, compete applying your data science skills, and enjoy sharing ideas and experiences with other people.
please note: London venue participants must register via Eventbrite
http://musicdatasciencehackathon.eventbrite.com/
The Competition: You’ll be presented with a music business challenge. You’ll be provided with a large music dataset. You will have to apply your data science skills and knowledge to solve the problem. Best analytical/predictive model wins.
The Challenge: to be announced soon
Dataset: The EMI One Million Interview dataset
Prizes: There will be £6,000 in cash prizes (London venue participants are eligible for £5,000 in prizes)
Other Useful information
The venue registration opens at 9.30 am on Saturday, 21st of July 2012
Upon arrival to the venue you will have to register at the reception
desk.The reception desk should have your name in the list of
participants.If you have not registered in evenbrite you will not be in
the list. If you are not in the list, you will not be able to
participate.
If you arrive after 11.30am you will not be able to participate in the competition.
Competition starts: Saturday, 21st of July 2012 at 1pm London time
Competition ends: Sunday, 22nd of July 2012 at 1pm London time
- You will be provided with 3 proper quality meals (lunch/dinner/breakast), unlimited drinks, coffee & snacks of all kinds.
- High-speed 100Mbps Internet will be available, 12 super HS Wi-Fi routers
- Fantastic ergonomic chairs, furniture, and comfy sofas.
- 12,000 sq ft of open, airy spac
- Shower facilities and resting area available at the venue
- Please bring your own laptop and any tools you want.
- Please bring your own sleeping mattress and sleeping bag.
- Lots of goodies!
- FUN, FUN, FUN
You will be provided with access to the competition web platform via Kaggle. Upon selection of the competition title Music Data Science Competition, you will be able to read the challenge, and access and download the dataset. You can download the dataset to your laptop and you can use your own tools.You will be provided with free access to EMC IT Platform should you choose to run computational jobs there or require more storage capacity. You don’t have to use EMC Platform if you don’t want. You will provided with free access to EMC/Greenplum Hadoop and Database Community editions and other Greenplum analytical tools. You don’t have to use these tools if you don’t want to.
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please note: London venue participants must register via Eventbrite
