GS1 Hackathon 2020: Hackathon Tips

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1. HACKATHON TIPS
2. HACKATHON TIPS  Mindset  Organization  Tech  Machine Learning
3. DÂNIA MEIRA Founding member, AI Guild ML models for predictive analytics Former bootcamp teacher #datacareer since 2012 LinkedIn
4. linkedin.com/company/ai-guild twitter.com/ai_guild medium.com/ai-guild eventbrite.de/o/ai-guild-27115216103 Join at theguild.ai/community
5. MINDSET  Be open minded –learn from the unexpected!  Be prepared to be nervous – it is a challenge!  Trust your group – A Datathon is meant for teams – be a team player  Be kind  Don’t focus on prizes – Focus on creativity  Perfectionists don’t survive - MVP  learning experience: know what do you want to learn and what you can teach Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
6. ORGANIZATION Where to start from? Understand the Problem Build your Hypothesis Team up & figure out the team‘s strengths and weaknesses Break down the entire solution into smaller tasks Appoint the roles: pick in a way that every teammate will be able to show their best sides. Distribute the workload evenly among teammates Don’t lose your time Ask for feedback as soon as possible Use slack Communicate frequenctly, give updates and ask for help Don‘t forget about: Break sessions Status sessions The presentation
7. TECH  Define your “Hackathon toolbox”  Programming language  Visualization  Presentation  Modelling  Webformats  Use git to collaborate on the code
8. MACHINE LEARNING  Do not jump into building models by dumping data into the algorithms  Validation set - avoid overfitting  Feature engineering – be creative  Ensemble has better performance than individual models
9. THANK YOU !