Harmony Hackathon

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 1: PDF parsing

• 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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09:30 - 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

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Chandler House (UCL), 2 Wakefield Street, London, United Kingdom