Microsoft Big Data Hackathon April 18-19 - @Simon Fraser University

The Microsoft Big Data Hackathon is your opportunity to hack for a good cause! Assemble a team, learn, share, and make new friends as you utilize big data technologies to solve real-world problems.

Who Should Attend
This event is open to anyone interested in Big Data, BI and Data Visualization:

  • Data Scientists
  • Developers and Programmers
  • Data Architects
  • Anyone interested in learning about Microsoft’s big data technologies

When

Day 1. Saturday, April 18
Day 2. Sunday, April 19

Where:

Simon Fraser University - Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
580 W Hastings St, Vancouver British Columbia V6B 1L6, Canada

Contest and Prizes
Attendees will self-organize into teams of 3-5 members, and participate in the Big Data Hackathon contest. Each team will be given 24 hours to select and solve a specific data science problem using Microsoft tools and then present the project to the judges.

Two winners will be chosen in two categories (one winning team per category):

  1. Data Modeling* – A team should produce a model to prove or disprove a relationship with the data; and

  2. Data Visualization** – A team should create a visualization to represent the data.

There will be $2,000 of prizes available from Microsoft ***

We will have Microsoft, Partner and Community experts on-hand giving presentations, running Q&A sessions and to assist groups with their projects.

Requirements
Attendees should bring the following:

  • Laptop or tablet running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1
  • Microsoft Excel (please find Office 2013 trial version here)
  • A Microsoft Azure Subscription (sign up for a free trial here)

More information:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-CA&EventID=1032613997&IO=sDVZuHkz5EzifgojwDoPNA%3D%3D&xd=313496&CR_CC=200596338

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Azure has very good linux support as well. Try it you will be pleasantly
surprised.
With Azure there is no need to restrict yourself, you are free to use
applications and tools you feel are best suited for the task at hand.

I work at MS, and the resident get it done damn it guru. I will dig up my
Azure linux cloud notes and post them.

Looks cool, I plan on seeing the hackathon presentations