The Unizin Application Development community, in collaboration with Colorado State University, is hosting a hackathon on Thursday, October 26th (full day) and Friday, 27th (½ day). This event is designed to bring Unizin members together to gain hands-on experience working with Unizin and Unizin vendor partner products and services, such as:
- The UDP and associated data marts
- Working with Kaltura data
- Prototyping new application concepts (Canvancements
- Denodo/Data Shipping)
- Expanding upon existing applications created by Unizin members
Unizin is working to have a synthetic data set for different activities, allowing all participants to directly access UDP data without privacy or security concerns. This event is primarily designed with application
developers, business analysts, and data scientists in mind, though all Unizin members are welcome to attend. Registration is required for this event so the organizers know the number of participants for planning purposes (there is no registration fee).
Participants are welcome to stay at the Hilton Fort Collins, 425 W Prospect Rd., where we have a group rate of $149 per night. Ten rooms are blocked at this rate until September 29. You can call 970-482-2626 and ask for the Unizin Hackathon room block with booking code 90N. The other option is the Best Western University Inn (914 S College Ave, Fort Collins) which is a 5-10 minute walk to the TILT building where we will be meeting.
Denver International Airport is 65 miles from CSU. Groome Transportation is your best option for a shuttle directly to either Hotel. Book each leg separately since you’ll be leaving on Friday from the CSU Transit Center, which is a 5-minute walk from where we will meet.
From airport: Select Hotels option: Hilton Fort Collins on Prospect
To airport: Select schools option: CSU Transit Center
Flights on Friday after 4:15 PM are highly recommended and required by Groome for 12:05 pickup time. The scheduled dropoff for that shuttle is 2:05 PM. If you have an earlier flight, you’ll need to select a 4:15 PM departure time when booking the shuttle. Shuttles are scheduled every hour and require a flight time 4 hours later. You can always game the system.
If you have questions regarding the Hackathon, please contact Bart Pursel (bart.pursel@unizin.org).
For more information on how the UNL database is structured and the types of questions that might be addressed using it contact Chad Brassil (cbrassil@unl.edu).