Plagiarism:
You may not plagiarize code or other analyses of the chosen datasets. This includes from online sources or other teams. Doing so will result in your project from being disqualified. Please act with integrity and with everyone else in mind!
Using External Sources:
You may use external data sources to supplement your analysis. However, you must cite these sources! You may NOT consult from other people outside of your group or CDC mentors for significant ideas or techniques to create your project.
Using Generative AI:
Tools such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, and GitHub Copilot are extremely powerful tools that can help developers and data scientists in the development of code and analysis of data. It is extremely important to be cognizant of data security when using such tools. In CDC, our datasets are all publicly available, so there should be none of those concerns here. In the real world over the next decade, it is increasingly apparent that the use of generative AI tools will become a regular part of our analysis and coding workflows. Therefore, CDC will allow the use of these tools. However, it is EXTREMELY important that you CITE where you use these tools! For code snippets copied from generative AI tools, please write a comment citing this code, and for statistical methods, please cite these. This is the only way we can maintain fairness and the integrity of the hackathon.
Project Submission on DevPost: Your final submission will be posted to DevPost. There will be a short template with some questions to fill out. Please fill this out, as well as submit all of your code and your final visualizations / files!
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Data Visualization:
It is expected that your final project contains at least one visualization component, ideally many that convey the results of your analysis! Feel free to create charts, dashboards, interactive websites, etc.
Final Presentation:
Each group will present their final project to a panel of judges. Presentations will be 7 minutes with a 2 minute time for Q&A. Teams should be ready to present at their appointed time, and presentations will be open for other teams to watch. Despite this, don’t be scared! The final presentation is a chance to show off what you have worked on impress our panel of judges.
Below is the rubric that will be used by judges to score each project.