Hackathon at the tranSMART Foundation 2015 Annual Meeting

During the meeting, a hackathon will take place for developers to work an a few proof of concepts innovations around tranSMART, also preparing for the future 2.0 version of the platform. On-site and remote access will be possible.  Details will be sent to registered attendees. There will be two main topics during this hackathon, one catering to backend and one more to frontend developers. The topics are: - building a POC around using SparkR on Amazon EC2 as a computational backend for tranSMART 1.3 - improving the visual analytics in tranSMART, by updating or adding analytics workflows in the SmartR plugin The reason for choosing these topics are: - For SparkR: Spark is the most active project in data science at the moment, with a lot of innovation and big names behind it. It makes sense to explore how we can optimally leverage this in the next version of the tranSMART platform. For this hackathon, a specific proposal has been prepared to use SparkR on top of the tranSMART core API to take advantage of the parallelization and lazy execution capabilities of Spark. - For Visual Analytics: the analytics in tranSMART are useful to get a quick overview of the data available in the platform, and one of the most visible and useful capabilities for early adopters to understand the value of the platform. The recently developed SmartR plugin (presented elsewhere in the meeting) provides already a few interactive analytics workflows, improving those and adding new ones is identified as a good opportunity for the hackathon. Ideas for specific analytics workflows to work on are most welcome, and of course we are looking forward to welcome again both beginners and tranSMART developer ninja's in this years' sessions! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT TO PARTICIPATE.   DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO REGISTERED ATTENDEES