The repository for Hackathon related information!
This repository contains the data and code for the Ersilia Hackathon. The goal of the hackathon is to use data to help Ersilia, a non-profit organization, better understand the needs of their clients and improve their services.
Ersilia is a nonprofit organisation focused on lowering the barrier to drug development by providing computational tools for open-source drug discovery. The organisation specialises in building and deploying hundreds of predictive models for target profiling, drug repurposing, and safety evaluations, focusing strongly on neglected tropical diseases that affect the global south.
The challenge is three-fold:
The datasets involved will include:
The hackathon is an open-ended format - unlike a traditional GDI project with clearly defined scope and deliverables, in the Hackathon, we want you to flex your data-science muscles and show us what impact you’re able to have!
We find that everyone will approach the challenge in different ways. This is valuable for our charity partner(s) because we expect to effectively come up with four different solutions and four different perspectives.
In terms of tools, anything goes! We have found in hackathons that people take this in different directions because they have different skill sets. Some of you will have a business intelligence background and skills in dashboarding segmentation. Others will have come from more technical backgrounds and have skills in data engineering, modelling, cloud, etc. Use what makes the most sense to you and leverage your team's strengths!
The main source of news/announcements and other updates throughout the Hackathon will be via the GDI Slack Channel titled #hackathon_ersilia. If you have any questions feel free to shoot them in this Slack channel or directly reach out to Berta, Shakeel or Vivek.
This channel will be an open forum to bounce ideas around and ask questions (please don’t hold back!).
Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 3 | Team 4 | |
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Captain | Caitlin Westney (C) | Pradeep Jones (C) | Stephanie McDonald (C) | Harshil Shah (C) |
Members | Kevin Beeson | Tania Sadhani | Tina Mu | Helen Liang |
Yashodhya Wijesinghe | Ojas Pradhan | Nam Hung Ngu | Uesi Unasa | |
Sash Gowrieswaran | Devika Prasad | Callum Lee | Olga Shabalina | |
Praneeth Saturi | Zoren Liu | James Baker | Haley Hutchins | |
Victor Zhen Zhuang | Ankita Singh | Keshav Prasath Asaithambi | Lara Najim | |
Mentor | Shivanka | Eleanor M | Dave C | Alistair W |