BROOKINGS – Jack’s Hack, a South Dakota State University student team led by Dwarika Bhattarai with Shailesh Pandit, Skye Brugler and Andrew Engel as team members, recently won the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Data Hackathon. The team won a $400 check and a travel trophy with their first-place prize, defeating teams from UNL, Kansas State University and the University of Illinois.
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BROOKINGS – Jack’s Hack, a South Dakota State University student team led by Dwarika Bhattarai with Shailesh Pandit, Skye Brugler and Andrew Engel as team members, recently won the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Data Hackathon. The team won a $400 check and a travel trophy with their first-place prize, defeating teams from UNL, Kansas State University and the University of Illinois.
“It was fun,” Pandit said. “It was a great learning opportunity for me and the other team members.”
The competition, which was sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, was part of the Nitrogen Use Efficiency workshop hosted by UNL’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture on Aug. 1-3.
Each team was given a large data set in which they were to clean, analyze and distill information. Using only the team members, they were required to develop a new nitrogen fertilizer recommendation tool using the provided data – in only 15 days.
The data sets were from 49 different sites and included weather history, corn yields, site management and soil properties.
“Using that data set, we were asked to develop a model so that we can predict the economic optimum nitrogen rate for the corn in an unknown field,” Bhattarai explained.