AU Hackathon - Getting Started

Getting Set Up

Slack and BeMyApp

1. Each team is welcome to create a Slack user and join the workspace au-hackathon-2017 https://join.slack.com/t/au-hackathon-2017/shared_invite/enQtMjY1MDM0NDg0NTgyLTk3ODBjZTExNDAyMDY0ODM5Y2VlMjYxMjQxNWNhNDE5ODA5NmJmNzVlNDBkN2EwNGU3M2UwMzkwMzg4NTAxMTc
2. Different channels and their purpose:

• #ineedhelp: Request help from the AU Hackathon staff if mentor can't be found
• #announcements: Channel strictly for event announcements

3. BeMyApp is available to all participants to post questions and read forum answers

Creating Instances

Each team must find a tech mentor in order to create EMR instances and recieve AWS access credentials.

Each team is responsible for instances created and are only allowed a max of three instances per team.

Note: No instances will be created between midnight and 9 AM

Learning Intents

APIs

Documentation on the different APIs through SwaggerHub:

https://github.com/CapitalOne-AU-Hackathon/au-hackathon-getting-started/blob/master/API_Getting_Started.md

Streaming

Deploying onto AWS EMR:

https://github.com/CapitalOne-AU-Hackathon/au-hackathon-streaming-app

Note: If EMRs are greater than m4.xlarge they will be terminated without notice

Machine Learning

Data to be used:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/auhackathon/Original+Mockaroo_Data_1/au_hackathon_final.json