Greetings for the day!

Dear participants,

We welcome you to the Data Good Social Hackathon conducted by Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC), Government of Telangana in collaboration with the Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. We are happy to have you here.

We are writing this note to let you know that we just published the problem statements on the hackathon platform. To sign up for the problem statements and enroll your team members please visit the hackathon website: https://smartinternz.com/data-for-social-good-hackathon.

Please go through the step-by-step instructions that are mentioned in the video
Youtube link for enrolling to the Problem Statement: https://youtu.be/kdBkGc85d2U

In case, if your team members haven't joined our channel, please figure out the problems and make sure they get in.

Kindly note that we have the hackathon inauguration scheduled tomorrow i.e 28th September 2021 at 5:45 PM please make sure you block the calendars. We will be sending Inauguration invitation details in the next note.

Please reach out to us in dataforsocialgoodhackathon@gmail.com Incase of any doubts or questions. Good luck to you all. Hope you have a great time with us.

Thank you,
Telangana State Innovation Cell(TSIC),
Government of Telangana, India.

Dear participants, please have a look at the pdf.

Hi all, we have received few requests regarding the dataset access related issues for challenge 1 and challenge 2. We have re-uploaded and provided an access to the datasets. Please do check out. Thank you.

Greetings for the day!


Dear participants,


We are delighted to announce to you that the Inauguration Ceremony for Data Good Social Hackathon, conducted by Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC), Government of Telangana, in collaboration with the Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA is scheduled today i.e 28/09/2021 from 5:45 PM IST - 7:00 PM IST.

And, team leaders, make sure your entire team attends the Inauguration Ceremony. Check out the link provided to join the meet.

Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81795453872

Time: 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM (28/09/2021)

Note: All the teams are requested to enroll for the problem statements and team leaders should make sure that they add their team members before 4:00 PM.
Problem statement enrolment: https://smartinternz.com/data-for-social-good-hackathon
Check out this Youtube link for enrolling: https://youtu.be/kdBkGc85d2U

Please reach out to us at dataforsocialgoodhackathon@gmail.com in case of any doubts or questions. Good luck to you all. Hope you have a great time with us.

Thank you,

Telangana State Innovation Cell(TSIC),
Government of Telangana, India.

Dear participants,

Gentle reminder to join the inauguration event by 5:45pm.

Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81795453872

Time: 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM (28/09/2021)

See you soon!

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Sep 28, 2021 06:00 PM India
Topic: Data for Social Good Hackathon

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81179934457
Passcode: 000000
Or One tap mobile :
US: +19294362866,,81179934457#,,,,*000000# or +12532158782,,81179934457#,,,,*000000#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 929 436 2866 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 811 7993 4457
Passcode: 000000
International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdpGtjV8PW

Greetings for the day!

Dear Participants,

We are glad to have a tremendous response to the inauguration. And we are writing this mail to provide you with some essentials. We will be sharing with you,

Please workout with the reading material for Workshop 1 incase if you haven’t gone through it: https://www.umass.edu/sbs/data-analytics-and-computational-social-science-program/dacss-telangana-hackathon

The inauguration video link: https://youtu.be/BNOOFRPTBKA

Drive link for all the hackathon resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aphj_6zfd500TShROuNBQqzT0_JbMsR8?usp=sharing

Telegram link for queries:
https://t.me/joinchat/MdQvvDCSMB44Zjc9

Please follow the instructions carefully mentioned in the video before you proceed with the problem statement enrollment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBkGc85d2U

For those who have not enrolled for the problem statements please use the below link: https://smartinternz.com/data-for-social-good-hackathon

Please reach out to us at in dataforsocialgoodhackathon@gmail.com Incase of any doubts or questions. Kindly make use of the resources provided and good luck to you all. Hope you have a great time with us.

Thank you,
Telangana State Innovation Cell(TSIC),
Government of Telangana, India.

Dear participants,

Gentle reminder to predictive analytics workshop from Data for social Good Hackathon is scheduled today at 6:30pm.

Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84577208053 (passcode:11111)
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (29/09/2021)

See you soon!

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Sep 29, 2021 06:30 PM India
Topic: Data for Social Good Hackathon | Workshop 2

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84577208053
Passcode: 11111
Or One tap mobile :
US: +19294362866,,84577208053#,,,,*11111# or +12532158782,,84577208053#,,,,*11111#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 929 436 2866 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 845 7720 8053
Passcode: 11111
International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kefHa1ex0

Subject: Data for Social Good Hackathon <> Day 2 | Workshop 2: Predictive Analytics by J-hub

Hello participants,

Greetings for the day! Hope you are doing great. This mail is to provide you with the todays workshop details:

Workshop 2: Predictive Analytics
Date: 29/09/2021
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84577208053 (Passcode: 11111)

Below is the additional information:

Virtual support hours: We have received a lot of questions requesting 1-1 calls with us. We have decided to offer virtual support hours from today until 1st October 2021.

Today we are available from 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM and 8:00 - 9 PM IST Please use the below Calendly link for booking the slot with us: https://calendly.com/dataforsocialgoodhackathon/data-for-social-good-hackathon

Note: Please change the timezone to India/Srilanka while booking an appointment.
In case if you have any specific time slot other than the above please to admin on telegram.

Reading material for workshop 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Owkr70tN6U3S6aeWH-Ibt3igPKUpVVqT?usp=sharing

Telegram link: https://t.me/joinchat/MdQvvDCSMB44Zjc9


We encourage you to please reach out to us with any question dataforsocialgoodhackathon@gmail.com Incase of any doubts or questions. Kindly make use of the resources provided and good luck to you all. Hope you have a great time with us.


Thank you,
Telangana State Innovation Cell(TSIC),

Photo from Krishna Chaitanya Rao

Please make sure while booking make sure to update it India/srilanka time which is IST.

workshop 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLNJueQ11AWuQt3qiH3Fof_pdgu6wBef/view?usp=sharing

Hola participants!!

Greetings for the day. We are overwhelmed to see your enthusiasm and this mail is to provide you with today’s workshop essentials.

Workshop 3: Data-Driven Policy Making
Date: 30/09/2021
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85307378346
Passcode: 12345

Note:
Please make sure to accelerate and submit your work tomorrow i.e, by 11:59 PM 01/10/2021.
Here are the guidelines that you should follow while submitting your work: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18lzJ-QnYs413m-zgxvkynxMCbTs-1CJA?usp=sharing
Please go through the refresher material before you come to the todays workshop: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zWGCO1T7nXfc7LgWBkQpSYnp-YHgZfGb?usp=sharing

We encourage you to reach out to us at dataforsocialgoodhackathon@gmail.com in case of any questions or doubts. Good luck to you all. Hope you have a great time with us.

We understand that students still have a lot of questions. Please feel free to call us or DM us on Telegram.

Support Team:
Akshita: +919866227289 (What’s App/Call)
Krishna Chaitanya Rao: +919515544099 (What’s App only)
Reshma: +917981632526 (What’s App/Call)
Lavanya: +919652569644

Note: We strongly recommend don’t wait until the last minute to submit your work. Please update your kanban board so that we will get to know who needs support.

Thank you,
Telangana State Innovation Cell(TSIC),
Government of Telangana, India.

Session started

Workshop 3: Recording https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ImkVUo6CLBGCl2wk7Th37ZlPSZXNdCT/view?usp=sharing

Dear participants,

Greetings!

We hope you are enjoying the hackathon. We just wanted to remind you that the deadline for the submission is scheduled today i.e 01/11/2021 on or before 11:59 PM IST.

Please do check out the solution submission guidelines mentioned in the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18lzJ-QnYs413m-zgxvkynxMCbTs-1CJA?usp=sharing

We have been receiving a lot of questions and concerns about github upload. In case you still have any issues don’t worry we will be hosting a short session today at 4:00 PM on Github Solution submission. We request you to please attend and get your questions answered.

Meet link for Github session: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/2891610710

In case you are still unable to upload on github or in case you have any general questions please reach out to us we are available round the clock.

Akshita Kanthala: +919866227289 (Call or What’s App DM)
Krishna Chaitanya Rao: +919515544099 (Call or DM What’s App only)

We would encourage you to speed up your work and start submitting the solutions in case you haven’t already done so.

Tip: We have seen that students are struggling with video recording. The best and easiest way to go about it is use zoom and click on record and then do a screenshare.

Note: For those who have missed yesterday workshop on Data Driven Policy making please find the recording: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zWGCO1T7nXfc7LgWBkQpSYnp-YHgZfGb?usp=sharing

We wish you all the very best and we are very much excited to see your solutions.

Best,
Telangana State Innovation Cell,
Government of Telangana.

Dear Participant,

Please join for the GitHub session

Meet link for GitHub session: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/2891610710

See you at 4pm!

Regards,
Telangana State Innovation Cell,
Government of Telangana.

Dear participants,

We have been getting many requests from you asking to extend the deadline for the Hackathon. Considering all those requests we have extended the deadline until Sunday afternoon 12:00 pm i.e until 3rd October 2021, afternoon 12:00 pm.

Note 1: If you have any issues while submitting through GitHub, you can also use the following google form to submit your findings. Ignore this if you already submitted your report.
Form link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdW0rxqjn8fmkjlMpjJPYCLFOQpuhImYj2k-BFh_zyx3h-xKw/viewform

Note 2: There is no need of adding any animations or editing to your video, you can just submit the raw version of it.

Thank you!

Present opportunities are not to be neglected, they rarely visit us twice :)

Regards,
Telangana State Innovation Cell,
Government of Telangana.