Uber, Zindi and Transport Economics at Stellenbosch University, in association with SANRAL, have invited data scientists and aspiring data scientists to participate in a machine-learning hackathon on Saturday, 12 October at the Launch Lab, Hammanshand Road, Stellenbosch.
In October 2019, Uber will be launching Uber Movement in Cape Town, a free tool which uses Uber's anonymized data from millions of trips to help urban planners make significant decisions about their city.
Stellenbosch University, Uber and Zindi would like to host up to 100 data scientists and aspiring data scientists to support SANRAL in building a machine-learning model that predicts when and where vehicle and pedestrian accidents are likely to take place in the Western Cape.
Anyone interested in building machine-learning models are welcome to participate. (It will help if potential participants have some familiarity with R or Python.) Participants must bring their own laptops to the hackathon.
The full-day hackathon will include:
- Technical orientation to the challenge from data sicence mentors,
- Work with your team to build a mchine learning model,
- Submit your results to the Zindi platform.
R7 500 in prizes will be awarded to the top solutions at the end of the hackathon.
