Between 8-12 March 2019, the second European Union (EU) Big DataHackathon took place alongside the 10th New Techniques and Technologiesfor Statistics (NTTS) conference in Brussels.
A hackathon is an event where IT experts and statisticians collaboratively look for nsolutions to a particular issue over a short period of time.
Seventeen teamsm from European National Statistical Institutes competed to develop a data analytics tool to address this year's challenge:
The award ceremony took place on 12 March and was hosted by the Director-General of Eurostat, Mariana Kotzeva.
The winners of the Hackathon are:
1st prize - the team from Statistics Poland, who created an open source prototype delivering a dashboard for the data analysis of population time use.
2nd prize - the team from ISTAT – Italy, who created SMUTIS, an integrated open source environment for data analytics, visualisation and food classification.
3rd prize - the team from the ONS – United Kingdom, who developed a system to enrich the data collected via traditional questionnaire-based surveys with automatic processing of photos of meals taken by respondents.
Read more: Winners of the EU Big Data Hackathon 2019 - Product - Eurostat
A hackathon is an event where IT experts and statisticians collaboratively look for nsolutions to a particular issue over a short period of time.
Seventeen teamsm from European National Statistical Institutes competed to develop a data analytics tool to address this year's challenge:
"How can innovative solutions for data collection reduce response burden and enrich or replace the statistical information/data provided by the timeuse survey?"
The award ceremony took place on 12 March and was hosted by the Director-General of Eurostat, Mariana Kotzeva.
The winners of the Hackathon are:
1st prize - the team from Statistics Poland, who created an open source prototype delivering a dashboard for the data analysis of population time use.
2nd prize - the team from ISTAT – Italy, who created SMUTIS, an integrated open source environment for data analytics, visualisation and food classification.
3rd prize - the team from the ONS – United Kingdom, who developed a system to enrich the data collected via traditional questionnaire-based surveys with automatic processing of photos of meals taken by respondents.
