{"id":359,"date":"2016-02-15T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-02-15T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:38:00","slug":"359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2016\/02\/15\/359\/","title":{"rendered":"LAVA Hackathon: Bringing interdisciplinary skills together for incredible impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><em>Reflections on the hackathon experience by data presenter\/scientist\/instructor Dr. Megan Barker<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>I\u2019d been looking forward to the hackathon for a few months, and it completely blew away my expectations!\u00a0\u00a0 As a data presenter at the hackathon, my role was to share ideas and data from my collaborative project characterizing classroom practices in UBC biology &#8211; all in the hopes of tempting data-savvy hackers to play with the data for the weekend. \u00a0\u00a0In my research project team, we currently have pedagogical expertise but are sorely lacking skills in visual and data analysis.\u00a0 This hackathon was a perfect opportunity for us to share the dataset with analysts and students looking for real educational data to work with.\u00a0 The event was a smash success: we built teams, worked on real projects together, and had tangible successes by the end.<\/p>\n<p>In our research, my colleagues and I ask the basic question:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-317 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/files\/2016\/01\/classroom_learning-1024x768.png\" alt=\"classroom_learning\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/files\/2016\/01\/classroom_learning-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/files\/2016\/01\/classroom_learning-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/files\/2016\/01\/classroom_learning.png 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We approach this by observing and collecting data from many classes in our department&#8230;..<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/lava-hackathon-bringing-interdisciplinary-skills-together-for-incredible-impact\/\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections on the hackathon experience by data presenter\/scientist\/instructor Dr. Megan Barker I\u2019d been looking forward to the hackathon for a few months, and it completely blew away my expectations!\u00a0\u00a0 As a data presenter at the hackathon, my role was to share ideas and data from my collaborative project characterizing classroom practices in UBC biology &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2016\/02\/15\/359\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAVA Hackathon: Bringing interdisciplinary skills together for incredible impact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1379072],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lava-hackathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}