What is UTA Datathon?

The UTA Datathon is one of the top annually runned 24-hour data-based competitive event organized by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. With an engagement of more than 200 participants, the students will utilize their analytical skills along with data to address the given challenges. The event happening on April 13th -14th in the Nedderman Hall is open to all majors.

The participants will have the option to work on two categories of challenges. Time based challenges will affect your score based on how soon you make a correct submission. Examples of these challenges are data annotation, data visualization, EDA, and clustering.

Model Challenges are not impacted by the time factor, rather the quality of your work will be a major factor for determining scores.

Combined both the challange categories will decide the top winners!

Get started

Make sure you have registered, find a team, create your Devpost account and start hacking!

Website | Schedule | Discord

Requirements

You will submit all your work through Devpost. This includes any text, code, analysis, and/or visualization files. You will be provided a dataset to work with for each challenge. Read through the challenge requirments and the grading rubric and submit in the form of a document upload, text, file, code, image, and/or video. For you to be scored correctly, include all materials in one submission. Multiple submissions may result in you losing points on the time factor as the latest submission will count towards the final score.

You must not use an existing project.

File Naming convention:

Make your submissions as clear as possible and name all your files with following naming convention: Challenge name_Team name (challenge name has to be exactly same as in the challenge document)

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

13 non-cash prizes

Dungeons and Dragons

1 winner

JBL Tune buds

Safe Haven

1 winner

Coffee Maker

Data Doomsday

1 winner

JBL Bluetooth and Apple Airtags

GeoQuest: The Hazard Chronicles

1 winner

Amazon Echo Dot

EDA Patrol

1 winner

Amazon FireTV Stick and Legos

KSAT Quest: Regression Runoff

1 winner

Monitor and RGB Lights

Deepfake Duel: Truth vs Trickery

1 winner

Google Speaker and Poloroid Digital Camera

Model Mash: LLM Arena

1 winner

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and 43' TVs

Best .Tech Domain Name

1 winner

⭐ Blue Snowball Microphone & a Free .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years! ⭐

Make your Team's Achievements timeless: Win a .Tech Domain Name for up to 10 years to Showcase and Expand Your Project, Plus 4 Blue Snowball Mics for Effortless Collaboration on Zoom, empowering you to build even more cool things together!

Promo Code: UTADATA25

Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare

1 winner

⭐ Arduino Kit ⭐

Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks enabling hackers like you to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications, no matter where you are! With Cloudflare, you’ll have all the building blocks to create a full-stack application; from C3 (create Cloudflare command line) instance deployment to object storage. You can even run GenAI (LLMs, text to image, Voice to text etc..) in the cloud and leverage your AI functionality via API requests using Cloudlfare’s Workers AI! Enjoy Cloudflare’s generous free tier to get started at no cost! This weekend, we want you to build an AI Application utilizing Cloudflare’s numerous services for a chance to win Arduino Kits for you and your team!

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

1 winner

⭐ M5GO IoT Starter Kit ⭐

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you'll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5GO IoT Starter Kit for you and each member of your team.

Best Use of Gemini API

1 winner

⭐ Google Swag ⭐

It’s time to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?