Data Science Challenges: Cut Your Time in Hack!
(Room S320C)
28 Nov 18
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
The increasing velocity and variety of data generated by the Department of Defense and used by the modeling, simulation, and training community demands holistic data science approaches performed in near-real time. How can you discover multiple innovative, unbiased, cutting-edge solutions in just three days? Host your own Data Sciencan Hackathon challenge! Data Science Hackathons are events that have been successfully used by the US Army and US Navy to incorporate external open-source tools coupled with super-smart data scientists to solve challenges impeding their success. Data Science Hackathons are designed to leverage cutting-edge data science tools, cloud computing environments, and resources from industry and academia to help solve an organization impeding computing problems. These events scale a data science workforce in a very short period of time to focus on challenges impeding a mission’s success. This enables new perspectives on complex problems with crowd sourced approaches and solutions, with little cost to the sponsoring organization. As a beacon for talent, Data Science Hackathons also serve as catalysts to accelerate and transform how enterprises engage problems and provide 365 days’ worth of work in three days. Our presentation will end with an overview of the 2017 I/ITSEC’s hackathon, sponsored by US Army TRADOC G-2, where contestants successfully processed 288 unstructured data files (video, text, audio) in less than 4 hours, beating the baseline processing time by a factor of three, and used topic modeling to extract the true value from this corpus of information. US ARMY TRADOC G-2 will share how their organizations have implemented the participant’s solutions and how their organization has changed as result of the event.