A hackathon has been announced as part of the Swiss Statistics Meeting, which we are looking forward to supporting! For more information visit
https://www.statistiktage.ch/
There is now a website, with this sexy background image:
There is a form to send in your child’s data, if you need them to be cared for.
There is a form to register for what promises to be an emotional and highly statisfying event.
Go for it!
Woah, August has come up quick, and the TWIST team & partners have been really busy preparing an awesome event!
A handful of tickets for next week’s TWIST hackathon are still available - if you haven’t already, plug in:
News from the team:
- Bring insight into public finances: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/public_finances
- Three steps from data desert to a thriving data ecosystem - dive into the linked open data future: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/three_steps
- Crowdsourced open data from «Züri wie neu»: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/zueri_wie_neu
- Give your address a position. Give your position an address: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/opengeocoder
- Work with the spatially most granular statistical (open) data on the Canton of Zurich: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/spatial_statistics
- Contribute to a better understanding of traffic in major Swiss cities: https://www.twist2018.ch/post/traffic
Upcoming - feedback is needed:
- We are preparing a kaggle-like machine-learning challenge with flight-data provided by the airport of Zurich. Can we successfully predict, if a flight will arrive/depart on time? If you’re experienced in modeling and machine-learning, please take a look at the data and tell us which further predictors should be added and what needs to be done to provide a „ready-to-go“ ML-dataset at TWIST2018: https://github.com/tlorusso/twist_zrh
- We are preparing a spatial dataset of real estate trades in the Canton of Zurich, based on https://statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/daten/daten_immobilien_raum/immomarkt/efhpreise.html and https://statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/daten/daten_immobilien_raum/immomarkt/ewhpreise.html
Lots of awesome hacking happened this weekend, and we have the data to prove it! Here are the projects in order of their final presentations:
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/3
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/12
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/8
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/17
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/16
Eheringe & Trauringe von der Nr. 1 | Trauring-Lounge 123GOLD
TWISTSpatialStatisticsZurich
A personalized dis-similarity measure with local residents in Kanton Zürich
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/6
Team Airtraffic
Creating insightful visualizations of air traffic from / to Zurich Airport and predicting delays
https://hack.twist2018.ch/project/20
Keep up the Truthful Hacking, feel free to ask if you want to get in touch with any of the teams, and see #TWIST2018 for many more visuals and impressions. Thank you all 