ECS Data Sciences Hack Week
Source: https://www.electrochem.org/233/meeting-highlights
Participants at work during the first ECS Data Sciences Hack Week.
Building on the success of the first ECS Data Sciences Hack Day (October 2017), the Society offered an expanded program at its Seattle meeting. The first ECS Data Sciences Hack Week kicked off on Monday and consisted of all-day sessions Wednesday through Friday, as well as optional software training tutorials during the week. These activities culminated with project presentations and an optional clamming expedition—a traditional activity in the Puget Sound area—on Saturday.
Like Hack Day, Hack Week was organized by Daniel Schwartz, David Beck, and Matthew Murbach of the University of Washington. Daniel Schwartz is the Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington. He brings electrochemistry and modeling expertise to the team. David Beck is a senior data scientist with the eSciences Institute at the University of Washington who leads regular hackathons. He is also the associate director of the NSF Data Intensive Research Enabling CleanTech PhD training program. Matthew Murbach is a past president of the ECS University of Washington Student Chapter and an advanced data sciences PhD trainee. He has been leading student section software development sessions on the UW campus and has practical experience coaching electrochemical scientists and engineers in software development.
The goal of the event was to increase the awareness and impact of data science tools, open source software, and shared datasets in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology by bringing together people from different backgrounds to collaborate.