The document provides information about the Mass EduData Challenge, including details about the agenda, timeline, rules, prizes, and available education data sets from the Massachusetts Department of Education. The challenge kicks off on May 28th with an introduction and data deep dive. Teams have until June 30th to submit their projects. Winners will be announced on July 8th. The available datasets include student enrollment, graduation rates, MCAS scores, educator data, and finance data from 1995-2014. Questions about the data can be directed to the Department of Education.
The Mass EduData Challenge: Analyzing Education Data to Improve Outcomes
1. The Mass EduData Challenge
Organized & Sponsored BY:
Industry Sponsors:
2. Get the buzz out!
#MassEduData
#MassBigData
@hackreduce
@mass_tech
@MassInnov8
@MassBigData
3. AGENDA
7:15pm -- Welcome!
• Pat Larkin, MassTech
• Tony Parham , OGIO
• Sharon Wright, EOE
• Jeff Wulfson, Mass DESE
• Elizabeth Graham, HubSpot
• Tej Chigateri, Socrata
• Christopher Scranton, MassTech
• Data Deep Dive – Rob Curtin, DESE
8:00pm – Data Q&A, Rob Curtin & Reid Serozi, Socrata
8:15pm – Team Building & 1-on-1 Mentoring
10:00pm – Good Night!
4. Competition Timeline
May 28th – Kick-off and Data Deep Dive
June 30th – 5:00pm Deadline for Submissions
July 8th – Winners Announced & Award
Tweet about it!
#MassEduData @MassDESE
@mass_tech @hackreduce
6. Prizes
Best Use of Data
$1,500 & a Google Nexus Tablet
Most Visually Compelling
$1,500 & a Google Nexus Tablet
Crowd Favorite
$1,000 & a Google Nexus Tablet
Collaborative Data Contribution
$500
7. Prizes - Startups
HubSpot
Automatic placement into
HUBSPOT JUMPSTART:A Scholarship
Program For Seed-Stage Startups
Qualification requirements waived and
reduced fee for participation
Learn Launch
A startup strategy session with Jean
Hammond and Eileen Rudden -
angel investors
9. Data Access and Overview
• Access to the data available for the challenge
• Overview of data available
• What does the ESE already have?
• How you can help the ESE and your community?
• Contact information
11. Dataset Format
• Data are in CSV (comma separated value) format
• Years available are listed in the file title and are
identified within each file
• Easy to use in
• Excel, LibreOffice, etc
• Most programming languages
• Data dictionary provided
12. Available Datasets
• Data have been exported from the ESE school and
district profiles – deep dive
• Years available vary by file type. For example…
•Student enrollment 1995-2014
•Graduation rates 2006-2013
•MCAS 2007-2013
•Educator 2008-2014
•Finance 2005-2012
• ESE research files available
13. What does the ESE already have?
• District and school profiles
• District and school report cards
• District Analysis, Review and Assistance Tools
(DART) http://www.doe.mass.edu/apa/dart/
• Early Warning Indicator System (EWIS)
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edwin/analytics/ewis.html
• Charter School Analysis and Review Tool (CHART)
http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/chart/
14. How You Can Help the ESE?
• Help us display our data in a manner that is more
user-friendly and informative to the public
• Possible use of maps for data points
• Quick reference tools
• Identifying new & novel relationships with other,
external data sets, explaining patterns,
comparative analysis – bring your own insights!
15. Contact & Support
•Questions on “what the data is” can be directed
to: data@doe.mass.edu and responses will be
provided within a business day.
•Questions on Data Analysis & Requests for
Guidance can be directed to:
Office Hours with HubSpot's CIO
(see data challenge website for contact info)
•Questions on Mass Edu Data Challenge rules and
details can be directed to:
Christopher Scranton – scranton@masstech.org
We’re spending our time at hack/reduce closely looking at every aspect of managing and leveraging Big Data. We believe that the means of Big Data.. The technologies and the data itself, are limited. We’re here to change that. We see that at our events, our participants are learning, creating, tackling issues, solving hard problems, and collaborating amongst peers whom they may have not ever had a chance to work with elsewhere.
All must create an account…. You can start submitting at (insert time)
You can keep editing and adding to that until (insert time)
Submissions end at exactly (insert time) and not a minute after!
Once we determine how many teams there are, we’ll let you know exactly how much time you’ll have to present your work.