• More than 20 teams participated with a team strength of 4/5 participants
• Participants were free to bring their own problem statement, problems they have worked upon are Twitter Sentiment Analysis for Product/ Entity, Prediction on Hurricane's occurrence for US geography based on weather and storm condition, Digital perception measurement using Yelp public data, and the Twitter stream, and Prediction of TV show rating using BARC broadcasting data
• Participants were expected to work on real-life projects and create an end-to-end solution
• Evaluation criteria for the hackathon: Innovation of the solution, GCP Skills, Model Accuracy

• The hackathon was conducted for a period of four-five weeks
• The problems provided by Mathlogic were Retail Sales Forecasting Based on X-Ray images – figure out if the patient has COVID-19, Multiclass- Multi-Label Text classification, Multinomial Classification
• Evaluation criteria for the hackathon: Key skills like Deep Learning, machine learning, data wrangling, modeling skills, platform skills, feature engineering were tested.

• Credentials are created for the participants and shared through an automated mail.
• Teams of 4-5 participants are created.

• We work with the most recent cloud-based platforms like Amazon Web Services(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
• According to the needs of the client, we organize hackathons either on these cloud-based platforms or set up a hosted environment.

• Certain rules are defined before the hackathon.
• Instructions include timelines, number of submissions per day, assessment metric: for instance, participants can only submit 10 submissions per day individually.
• Also, they are free to use what all services they find useful to solve the use.

• The theme for the hackathon should be innovative.
• It should make participants to work on the solution that is awesome, that matters, that is useful, and gets noticed.
• We talk with our clients about what areas they want to work or explore and provide datasets relying on industrial use cases.

24*7 assistance is provided through the piazza, google groups, teams. Self-guided notebooks are additionally provided to the participants so as to help when they get stuck.

A live leaderboard is created for the participants to check their respective scores over the span of the hackathon to increase the competitive spirit and inspiration among the participants.

Timely interaction with the participants during the hackathon if they are confronting any challenges or difficulties.

Toward the completion of the hackathon, assessment is done based on solution efficacy, level of innovation, and how they have utilized different services.