Kennesaw State University Hackathon 2020

HPCC Systems is a sponsor this event as part of our academic program. It is hosted by the College of Computing and Software Engineering at KSU.

Date of the event	September 14-19th 2020
Location	Virtual
Cost	Free
Eligibility	This event is open to all KSU CCSE students (ACS, BASIT, IT, CS, SWE, and CGDD) who have passed their first few programming courses. Graduate students who have exempted all transitional courses or have passed at least three 5000 transition courses are also eligible.
Registration	https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/events/hackathon.php
HPCC Systems Hackathon Team	Big Data Analytics on HPCC Systems
Challenge	Impact of Covid19 on Aviation Industry
Challenge Instruction	All information is provided on KSU-2020-Hackathon
Quick look at ECL	Learn ECL Quick Start ECL Cheat Sheet
General Instructions
Rating Criteria	Innovation involved Understanding of Big Data patterns and its application to HPCC Systems. Team work and execution Problem that was chosen How you approached the solution Display results Drawing conclusion Demo of work via a PowerPoint presentation or live demo
Mentors available during the Hackathon	The following mentors will be on site for the duration of the event: Jeremy Clements Lili Xu Chris Human Bahar Fardanian
Slack Channel	Announced at event time

What can I do to prepare?

Watch a quick overview video about HPCC Systems
We will be using a cloud-based IDE so, no installation or extra learning. Just login and start working.
Sample code will be part of the IDE, but to take a quick look please use Learn ECL
Take a look at our Machine Learning Documentation and Sources.

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