CUHK Data Hack: Data Hack 2023

We are pleased to invite all CUHK students and staff to join the Data Hack 2023 and pre-hackathon workshops.

Main Theme: Post-COVID-19 Opportunities: What People want to Do After the Pandemic 

Sub-themes:

• Health and Ageing Issues 
• Leisure, Retail and Tourism  
• Media, Culture and Entertainment 
• Financial Industry 

Date: 17 February 2023 (Fri) – 19 February 2023 (Sun)

Venue: InnoPort, CUHK

Aims:

• Promoting innovation skills, including data and digital competency to CUHK students and staff
• Enhancing multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional collaboration among CUHK students and staff

Description:

• Within 48 hours, participants will apply knowledge and skills from what they have learnt in the pre-hackathon workshops about data mining to solve the current problem in the Post-COVID-19 era.  Working as teams, they shall:

1. select one sub-theme among the four
2. use the data sets provided by the organizer in their solution/actionable proposal
3. conduct a group presentation on their solutions in Day 3

We welcome CUHK students and staff to join the Data Hack 2023 in teams or as individuals. To join in teams, each group should have 3 to 5 members from both faculty groups 1 and 2:
Group 1: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Science
Group 2: Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science

Individual participants will be teamed up after the Introduction session on 17 Feb (Fri) night.

Registration ended on 10 Feb 2023 (Fri).

Pre-hackathon workshops are arranged for participants to get prepared for the Data Hack 2023 and/or learn new resources and skills.

Assessment Criteria

• Originality (30%) 
• Impact (40%) 
• Feasibility (20%) 
• Affordability (10%) 

* Teams MUST refer/use at least ONE data source (except those under Platform and Other Resources) in the Data Source page and indicate in the final presentation.

Judges

• Mr. Perkins Ho, Senior Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Ms. Yanis Leung, Project Manager, Yesports Media Limited
• Prof. Jessica Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, CUHK

Team Prizes (sponsored by the CUHK Library):

• Champion: HKD5,000 of e-voucher + laptop bags sponsored by AWS
• 1st Runner up: HKD3,000 of e-voucher
• 2nd Runner up: HKD2,000 of e-voucher

Thanks to the following Sponsors in providing resources and support to our Data Hack participants:

• AWS: AWS Academy account with USD100 credits to Data Hack participants, AWS charging cables and laptop bags for Champion Team
• Yesports Asia: data on their game usage 

• Prof. Qijin Cheng (Department of Social Work, CUHK) 
• Prof. Peichi Chung (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK) 
• Prof. Anthony Fung (School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK) 
• Ms. Lily Ko (CUHK Library) 
• Ms. Joyce Leung (Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EPIN) Minor Programme, CUHK) 
• Prof. Timothy Leung (Department of Social Work, CUHK) 
• Dr. Frank Ng (Department of Management, School of Business Administration, CUHK) 
• Ms. Kitty Siu (CUHK Library) 
• Prof. Bernard Suen (Center for Entrepreneurship, CUHK) 
• Prof. Andy Wong (Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EPIN) Minor Programme, CUHK) 
• Dr. Kwong Cheong Wong (Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK) 
• Prof. Wilson Wong (Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK) 

Please email to dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk or liblc@lib.cuhk.edu.hk for enquiries.