I’m not so much into hackathons anymore, but I’m always willing to make an exception for hacking farming data. This time not as a participant, but as a data mentor, I took part in the WUR Life Sciences Hack organized by FarmHack. I was helping out on a challenge provided by Lely – a manufacturer …
A few weeks ago Gosia and I put together an all-star team with our friends from Über and eBay and went to another hackathon. This time it was organized by Living Lab Smart Charging. There were four tracks dedicated to analyzing and building systems to improve the state-of-the-art of green energy solutions. Being a Beatles …
Last week we went to Leeuwarden to hang out on a farm. Not just any farm, but the Dairy Campus. On this farm they run trials for new food and have the newest equipment. For example, cows can milk themselves and there is a manure-Roomba in the barn. Surrounded by people and cows, we analysed …
Last week we participated in the Bright Cow hackathon. Yes, it was as fun as you immediately imagined! We had the data on how much milk cows give up-to a nipple level! The farmers and the dairy industry like their cows to be healthy, so they produce more milk, and everybody is happy. FARMING IS …
The lucky streak continues.. or maybe there is something to it: we entered a hackathon for the third time this year and for the third time we won. This time it was a 2-day hackathon organized by Gemeente Amsterdam: Hackathon Omgevingswet. THE CHALLENGE The trigger for organizing this hackathon is the introduction of the new ‘omgevingswet’ …
After our successful appearance at WHAT datathon we decided to try our skills again and, together with an old friend of mine Konrad Banachewicz from TNG Quant Consultancy, we took part in Eneco’s Predictive Maintenance Challenge, a part of Dutch Data Science Week 2017. And yes, we won again! BUSINESS VALUE The competition was fierce and there were many great models created. …
Last weekend we took part in the WHAT datathon – a data science competition accompanying the WHAT behavioral data conference organized by Wakoopa.And YES, we won the Gfk Insights track! THE CHALLENGE The challenge was to uncover business insights in clickstream data. We got data of one month in 2016 of a Dutch panel that shows how people have been using …