Lessons Learned from an 8 hour Data Science Hackathon

I participated in my first Hackathon today. It wasn’t a regular hackthon though — one where you sit in a room, together with your team and build solutions together during the span of the weekend.

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This hackathon — Microsoft + DataKind Virtual Deep Dive was entirely online and last 8 hours. We started the day of with a introduction to the event (100+ on a Zoom call is no…