Matters pertaining to hackathons
The NERC Digital Gathering #DG23 Hackathon event, held following the conference has now finished. We adopted a ‘collaborative’ approach to this year’s hackathon, with two groups of experienced instructors helping to facilitate the delegates to use the software tools and computational environments on offer to further their research. Expert Network member Prof. Richard Reeve and […]
Following the successful #DG23 Digital Gathering conference, comes the the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Digital Gathering 23 Hackathon, where the first day has now completed (https://lnkd.in/ewmVU7FW). Held at Churchill College, Cambridge, the hackathon is led by Digital Environment Expert Network member Prof Richard Reeve, Professor of Population and Ecosystem Health and team from the University of Glasgow, […]
We are delighted to report that Dr Tom August has been declared winner of the #CDE22 Hackathon following a unanimous judges’ decision and is awarded the top prize of £3,000. His artwork, An Incomplete Picture explores the biodiversity crisis in the UK based on the data in NERC’s EIDC, highlighting the limitations of that data […]
The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]
Dr Tom August, UKCEH I built a physical ‘data cube’ as a way to communicate how this concept is used in biodiversity research. Data cubes are three-dimensional arrays of data, or put another way, a stack of spreadsheets, one on top of another. In the case of my research the three dimensions of the data […]
Tom August from UKCEH describes how he and his hackathon teammates used network analyses to unpick gender variation in natural history collectors Naturalists have been exploring and recording the natural world for hundreds of years. They often do this in groups. Understanding these networks of co-collecting was the focus of a hackathon project at BioHackathon Europe […]