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Dropped the ball on my PhD for months to wrangle sponsors, set up the website, recruit participants and generally get shit together. It went well, with feedback from students like "easily the most useful and fun week I've had since I started uni".
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","as:endTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-02-23T18:00:00+0000"},"as:name":"Co-organiser, Open Data Day Edinburgh","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-02-23T09:00:00+0000"},"as:startTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2013-02-23T09:00:00+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cv"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/event"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/ilwhack"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/okfn"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+data+day"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+data"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/open+knowledge"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/organiser"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/resume"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/unconference"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2013/02/weeks-review","@type":"as:Article","blog:bloggerid":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5732083218834733501","as:actor":{"@id":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130"},"as:content":"11th to 24th February
\r\n
\r\nI went to the Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making workshop; read about it.
I helped organise and run the Innovative Learning Week Smart Data\r\nHack (18th -\r\n22nd), and Edinburgh's version of International Open Data\r\nDay\r\n(23rd). Both were successful.
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\r\nThe Smart Data Hack, also known as ILWhack (Innovative Learning Week* hack)\r\ncame first, between the 18th and 22nd of February.
\r\nThe hack was targeted at first and second year undergraduates in Informatics\r\non the basis that third and fourth years would be busy with final projects.\r\nThis was by no means a restriction however, and we harboured hopes of enticing\r\nalong design students and data buffs from other departments to mix up the\r\nskill set a bit as well.
\r\nI knocked up a website with two primary\r\nfunctions.
\r\nWe anticipated about 50 students, and invited them to form teams of up to 5.
\r\nIn parallel with gathering sponsorship, we came up with five prize categories\r\nof equal merit:
\r\nWe hoped to encourage students to make whatever they wanted, using whatever\r\ntechnologies they wanted, with use of open (or specially provided) data being\r\nfavourably looked upon.
\r\nSkyscanner were the first main sponsor on board,\r\npledging prizes for two categories and some massive datasets that aren't\r\nusually public and access to internal APIs, as well as engineers to mentor.
\r\nWe partnered with ALISS to encourage use of their local\r\nhealth and wellbeing data API; ALISS also sponsored in part a prize category.
\r\nThe City of Edinburgh Council were on board with\r\nsome never-before-seen downloadable datasets (still\r\nonline!), a bunch of\r\npre-approved API keys and refreshingly open minds and supportive attitudes.
\r\nCompSoc heroically sponsored an entire prize category\r\nand promoted the event to its members.
\r\nOpen Innovation sponsored a prize\r\ncategory too, and the School of Informatics contributed towards prizes and catering.
\r\nGreener Leith proposed a challenge and\r\nsponsored a special Mosque Kitchen lunch for everyone after the mid-point\r\npresentations on Wednesday.
\r\nWe were able to hold some terrific practical\r\nworkshops, thanks to:
\r\nWe also recruited mentors from UG4 and PhD students, as well as industry\r\nprofessionals, who were consistently present in the hacking space all week or\r\navailable by Twitter, email and IRC.
\r\nWe marketed the event in the couple of weeks prior (though we were organising\r\nup to the very last minute) through shout outs in lectures, posters around the\r\nInformatics department, emails to many university mailing lists and word of\r\nmouth.
\r\nAs a result, we overshot our expected numbers, with well over 100 sign-ups by\r\nthe start of the week. This was good news and bad news at the time, as we had\r\nto scramble around to make sure we had enough sponsorship to feed everyone and\r\nwhatnot.
\r\nBy the end of the week, there were around 80 students still actively\r\nparticipating, across about 25 teams. Pretty good! Most of them were\r\nInformatics undergraduates as expected, but we had a handful of postgraduates\r\nand students from the ECA as well.
\r\nAnd the outcome?
\r\nSome amazing projects and really positive feedback from participants and\r\nsupporters alike.
\r\nNaturally only a couple of days passed before somebody noticed that I hadn't\r\nsanitized input fields on the website for HTML and CSS input, so they made the\r\nprojects page spin and play the Harlem Shake before I sorted that out, having\r\nbeen alerted at around midnight. /grumble. Should have seen that coming, of\r\ncourse.
\r\nIn the end we gave away £1500 in Amazon vouchers, five Nexus 7s and ten Kindle\r\nFires. Skyscanner even upped their sponsorship to three prizes because they\r\nwere so spoilt for choice.
\r\nYou can read about the projects, teams and see some demos\r\nhere.
\r\nIt was a really exciting and inspiring week for everyone involved. Many of\r\nthe students are taking their projects further (which is probably the most\r\nimportant outcome) and are in discussions with relevant parties to do so.
\r\nYou can see photos and see other peoples' write-ups about the event\r\nhere.
\r\nWill we do it again next year? From the feedback gathered, the response has\r\nbeen a resounding yes!
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","as:endTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2014-02-23T19:00:00+0000"},"as:name":"Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2014-02-17T09:00:00+0000"},"as:startTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2014-02-17T10:00:00+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cv"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/hackathon"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/ilwhack"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/innovative+learning+week"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/organiser"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/resume"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/smart+data+hack"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/university+of+edinburgh"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/volunteer"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/02/co-organiser-smart-data","@type":"as:Article","blog:tmpcontent":"# Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack\r\n\r\n## University of Edinburgh\r\n\r\nReprised my role as very-stressed-person and just about pulled off another successful week with around 100 students including (!!) business and design students; [smartdatahack.org](http://smartdatahack.org).","as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"Reprised my role as very-stressed-person and just about pulled off another successful week with around 100 students including (!!) business and design students; smartdatahack.org.
","as:endTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-20T19:00:00+0000"},"as:name":"Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack","as:published":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-16T09:00:00+0000"},"as:startTime":{"@type":"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#datetime","@value":"2015-02-16T10:00:00+0000"},"as:tag":[{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/cv"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/hackathon"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/ilwhack"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/innovative+learning+week"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/organiser"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/resume"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/smart+data+hack"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/university+of+edinburgh"},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/volunteer"}]},{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/02/smart-data-hack","@type":"as:Event","as:actor":{"@id":"https://rhiaro.co.uk/about#me"},"as:content":"I'm again helping to organise the University of Edinburgh Smart Data Hack, which is happening next week, 16th - 20th February. It's an event for undergraduates during the university's Innovative Learning Week, during which they get to learn loads of stuff they wouldn't normally see in class, hack around with datasets from various sponsors and supporters, eat tons of free food and hopefully win prizes.
\r\nIf you're interested in getting involved, check out the Smart Data Hack website...
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