List of hackathons organized by data science milan in 2018

U’re the one we’re lookin’ for Officine Innovazione lancia l’Incubation 2018, la prima Challenge del network di Deloitte aperta all’esterno e su tutto il territorio Deloitte Central Mediterranean, costituito da Italia, Grecia e Malta. La competizione si svolgerà attraverso un processo di incubazione delle migliori tra le idee generate nel corso degli anni precedenti. Diversamente dai tradizionali “contest di innovazione” che hanno l’obiettivo di generare idee rispetto a un ambito di business o un tema definito, il focus dell’Incubation 2018 di Deloitte sarà sulla fase di incubazione dei progetti. L’obiettivo dell’iniziativa è infatti quello di consentire alle idee più promettenti dei dipendenti Deloitte di progredire ulteriormente verso la trasformazione in un servizio finito anche attraverso l’ottenimento di un supporto concreto e/o un finanziamento. Per la realizzazione di progetti ancor più completi, lo sviluppo delle idee verrà supportato anche da talenti esterni. L’Incubation 2018 prevede infatti il coinvolgimento di sviluppatori, developers e appassionati di tecnologia per lo sviluppo di un primo prototipo delle idee. Questi profili saranno selezionati attraverso una call-to-action aperta da metà Aprile a fine Maggio e accessibile con una piattaforma dedicata. L’obiettivo è quello di formare dei team che competeranno per la prototipazione delle idee durante il Deloitte Hackathon. Alla conclusione di tale milestone fondamentale della Challenge 2018 saranno premiati i team che avranno prodotto il prototipo migliore. La deadline per iscrizioni e' il 27 Maggio, partecipa al Deloitte Hackathon: https://www.deloittehackathon.com/. --- Would you be happy to host one of our events? Increase your popularity and be known from our community by hosting one of our interesting events. Contact us at datasciencemilan@gmail.com, all we ask is a venue and possibly an aperitivo buffet. If you are interested in doing a lightning talk or want to propose an event, hackathon, panel discussion, roundtable or any sort of initiative please submit your proposal at Call for speakers or get in touch with one of the member of the staff.

If you work with data in Python, you most probably (should) know pandas, a library, started ten years ago as a personal project by Wes McKinney, which is today a cornerstone in the Python stack for data analysis. This is due to its flexibility and performance, its large number of features, and its integration with other libraries of the pydata environment (including some which are based on it, such as dask and xarray). One aspect under which pandas has not shined so far is the documentation. The API is large, and the effort to produce complete and consistent docstrings has not been entirely successful. The good news is that this is going to change. The even better news is that you can help. On March the 10th, a pandas documentation sprint will take place all over the world. More than 300 pythonistats, in more than 20 cities, will work together to improve the docs. In Milan, we will meet at Mikamai/LinkMe at 10 a.m, in an event organized jointly by Data Science Milan and PyMI. In order to participate, all you need is some minimal experience with git/github, with pandas...and your laptop. Among us will be Pietro Battiston, who has experience contributing to pandas: he will guide us through the process of improving the docs, and will be available for any help/clarification on the topic. See you there! --- Would you be happy to host one of our events? Increase your popularity and be known from our community by hosting one of our interesting events. Contact us at datasciencemilan@gmail.com If you are interested in doing a lightning talk or want to propose an event, hackathon, panel discussion, roundtable or any sort of initiative please submit your proposal at Call for speakers or get in touch with one of the member of the staff. --- About the host: Mikamai MIKAMAI is a leading IT consultancy and development agency in Italy. MIKAMAI has earned its dominant reputation for delivering real value to our clients and being leading innovators in emerging technologies in web and mobile solutions and products of the Internet of Things. We work with different languages and technologies, including but not limited to Ruby (and Ruby/Rails), React, AngularJS, Elixir, Redis and PostgreSQL. We tend to work with containers in mind (we are huge docker fans) and we consider ourselves AWS experts.