Harmony Hackathon
Get ready to collaborate, innovate, and create harmony at our upcoming Harmony Hackathon event!
Date and time
Location
Chandler House (UCL)
2 Wakefield Street London WC1N 1PF United KingdomAbout this event
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Harmony Hackathon
Come join us for a day of coding, collaboration, and creativity at the Harmony Hackathon! Whether you're a seasoned programmer or just starting out, this event is perfect for anyone interested in tech and innovation.
The event will be held at Chandler House (UCL), providing a vibrant and inspiring atmosphere for all participants. Get ready to work on exciting projects, learn new skills, and connect with like-minded individuals. Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your talents and have a blast! Make sure to also join our community on Discord, check out our Github and ideas list
🥪 Food and refreshments will be available to all attendees throughout the day.
🏆 Cash prizes awarded to the winners and runners up
What will we be working on?
This Hackathon is to improve Harmony in general and we would like help with a number of areas - your team could pick one or choose your own! If you don’t have a team, don’t worry, we’ll get you involved on the day!
🧑💻 We’ll be working on a range of problems, you can find a full list on our Github
- Task 2: Improve matching of items by semantic similarity
- Task 3: Experimenting with LLMs
- Task 4: adapting Harmony to other domains such as medical history or Informed Consent Forms
- Task 5: Making Harmony multilingual
- Task 6: Getting Likert scales out of documents
- Task 7: Making a similarity score between instruments using the Word Movers Distance algorithm
- Plus any ideas you might have! We have some UX issues that could be fixed - see UX testing report.
Ideas of the problems that we will be solving are here: https://harmonydata.ac.uk/ideas
📋 On the day:
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09:00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries
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09:30 - 10:00 - Welcome talk and introductions from Thomas Wood (Fast Data Science) and Bettina Moltrecht (UCL)
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10:00 – 12:15 - Breakout groups - Begin working on projects
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12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch break
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13:30-15:15 - Breakout groups - Continue working on projects
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15:15-15:30 - Write up; push to GitHub
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15:30-16:30 - Group presentations - 3 minutes per group; show us your notebooks! 😊
What you have achieved; key outputs; next steps
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16:30-17:00 - Close of the Hackathon, feedback and next steps
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After 18:00 - Drinks & Socialising at The Marquis Cornwallis Pub
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Frequently asked questions
Harmony is an open source project for retrospective harmonisation of questionnaire items, it is used by researchers and psychologists for free around the world. Harmony uses Natural Language Processing to help researchers make better use of existing data from different studies.
Everyone is welcome! We appreciate coders with skills in Python or Node.js, or anyone with an interest in psychology, data science, natural language processing, or anyone with an idea to improve Harmony.
University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, London WC1N 1PF. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/contact/how-find-chandler-house
Unfortunately not, this is an in-person live Hackathon. There are no options for joining online. If you can't make this one, don't worry, keep in touch with us on Discord and Github as we will be hosting more Hackathons in the future.
Please bring your own laptop and anything you need to feel comfortable on that day. We will be providing wifi, snacks, food and drinks including water, tea and juice.
Please bring your eventbrite ticket to the event which we will check against registered attendees. Please ensure you have signed up prior to the event.
Here are instructions for guests to access wifi: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/how-to/connecting-to-uclguest-wi-fi-cloud
There are limited spaces - we can accommodate up to 40 people, so make sure you register soon as we expect places to fill up fast. If you register and can no longer make it, please let us know so we can offer the space to someone else.
Yes! There will be prizes available to winning teams and runners up of the day. Prizes will be judged and allocated on the day. More info on prizes and judging will be posted on our Github nearer the date.
Any code produced and submitted to the main Harmony repository will be public under MIT license.
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No problem, please get in touch with us using the email below and we will do our best to accommodate you!
If you can’t find the information you need here, feel free to get in touch with us, either on Discord, or use the contact option below.