Welcome to the Ilifu - IDIA Hack at Sol Plaatjie University! The hackathon is designed to help you improve your data science skills in a friendly and supportive environment. At the hackathon, you will be grouped into teams and each team will work independently on the hack challenge. At the end of the hack each team will give a 10 minute presentation on the results of their challenge. These presentations will be judged by the organisers and there will be a prize for the winning team. The presentations will be judged on (1) the accuracy of the predicted results via machine learning and (2) visualisation/presentation of the data and results.

In this hack you will work on one of three projects: (i) CHALLENGE-1 - Build a movie recommendation App! (ii) CHALLENGE-2 - Estimate the amount of flood damage after a hurricane using satellite images! (iii) CHALLENGE-3 - Help astronomers find pulsar signals from space!

All projects were created by DARA Big Data.

The hack will be run in Python3 using the IDIA Cloud. Students should have a basic working knowledge of Python (including the scipy and numpy libraries) - but you do not have to be an expert to take part and enjoy yourself!