Announcements / Hello

workshop on Sunday (this coming Sunday) at CalHacks – overview of projects from John.

BERC Communities member recruitment as well.

This meeting is to kick off, in a sense, the project working group meetings phase of the slow-burn hack-a-thon.

We are rolling with a good head of steam on the semester and all are welcome and encouraged to come join a group (either by coming to the meetings, or virtually). Or, come hang out at the meeting and hear what we have going on.

Goals for Groups today

1. Outcomes / goals
2. Data sources (in hand / not in hand)
3. Algorithms and code development tasks
4. Elevator pitch on 1-3 (one minute to describe it)

What to accomplish this semester…(pitch summaries)

1. Taxonomy

   Organize existing datasets to make taxonomy…use MongoDB.

2. Emissions Mapping:

   User discovery – how to undergrads want to use emissions data to choose a career… Build a better version of the WRI database for US emissions by sector/end use/geography/tech/etc….

3. EAT-Grid

   Build a set of Python / R libraries that facilitate DATA for Energy analysis