Description

Datathon 2023 was co-organized by the University of Peradeniya, the University of Colombo School of Computing, the University of Moratuwa, and the University of Jaffna. The event was organized through the collaboration of several key partners, including Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN), the host of APAN56, the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, and the IEEE Computer Society Sri Lanka Chapter. Datathon also benefited from the invaluable contributions of three exceptional student societies: the Hackers' Club of the University of Peradeniya, CompSoc of the University of Colombo, and the ACM Student Chapter of the University of Moratuwa. The event received sponsorship from Fortitude as the silver sponsor, along with Future Labs, CodeGen, and KochaSoft as bronze sponsors. Additionally, Datathon was generously supported by Hatch Works (Pvt) Ltd, who served as the ecosystem partner and provided the event venue. Micro Rewards played a vital role as the digital certificate partner. In the initial phase of event organization, invitations were sent to the following higher education institutions to form teams. Tertiary Education Institute School/Faculty/Department Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology - Informatics Institute of Technology - National School of Business Management - Sabaragamuwa University Faculty of Computing Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology - University of Colombo University of Colombo School of Computing University of Jaffna Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Engineering University of Kelaniya Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering University of Moratuwa Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering IT Department University of Peradeniya Dept. of Computer Engineering Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science Tertiary Education Institute School/Faculty/Department University of Ruhuna Dept. of Computer Science University of Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Computing Uva Wellassa University Dept. of Computer Science and Informatics Provided rules and regulations: ● The Datathon was a 24-hour event which started at 12.00 noon on 22nd August 2023 and ended at 12.00 noon on 23rd August 2023. ● Teams o Each team comprised four members. o The members were from a cohort of 3rd year students and above of the institute. ● A panel of judges evaluated each solution based on the following criteria. o Creativity, Innovativeness & Idea representation [30%] o Usefulness & Practicality [20%] o Efficiency [10%] o Business value [20%] o Completeness [20%] ● Teams were evaluated throughout the Datathon on 3 occasions. The following was the initial evaluation plan (On the day of the event, the following counts were adjusted to align with the number of participants in the event). o First round evaluation - To select 20 of 40 teams o Second round evaluation - To select 7 of 20 teams of round 1 + 3 wild card teams (A wild card is a selection of a team from the teams that did not make the shortlist) o Third round evaluation - To select 4 of 10 teams of round 2 + 1 wild card team o The finalists were evaluated based on a 10 minute presentation and the Champions, 1st runner-up, and 2nd runner-up teams were selected. ● Prizes were awarded as follows. o Champions Rs. 100,000.00 o 1st Runner-up Rs. 60,000.00 o 2nd Runner-up Rs. 40,000.00 ● Certificates of participation were awarded to all participants. ● Team members were advised to be within the event premises from registration till the end of the event. ● Team members were advised to only use their original ideas, codes, processes and procedures for the datathon, and not to obtain third party help. ● Mentors only guided the teams and did not support the development of the solution, data analytics or business insights in any manner.