The Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) Data and Resource Center is hosting an in-the-cloud codeathon from August 6-8, 2022. Apply by July 25, 2022.

Help make SPARC data, tools, and resources more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable in this in-the-cloud codeathon.

Over ten projects have made the cut, including:

• Leverage AWS Athena and Glue to index, query and find data from SPARC datasets
• Simple Protocols.io widget that provides a quick overview of an existing experimental protocol
• Establish services on o²S²PARC to automatically analyze SPARC-relevant image data
• Enhance and expand the SPARC dataset metadata
• Using Leaflet to interact with flatmaps in a Jupyter notebook.

Recruitment is open from July 11 – July 25 by 5 pm EDT.

Eligibility: Competitors from the United States and abroad are eligible.

Prizes Available: Total prize pool of  US$50,000 — including cash prizes and manuscript publication fees.

Codeathon event: August 6-8, 2022

Apply to join a team!

We encourage researchers and data scientists at any stage of their science journey to register. There is no cost to participate, and during the event, SPARC experts will be available to help with technical advice as needed.

Be sure to join the SPARC FAIR Codeathon listserv for the latest information about the SPARC FAIR Codeathon and the teams being put together.

Applications are due July 25, 2022 by 5 p.m. EDT.