About the challenge
The Afropix 2025 Hackathon is focused on creating compelling visualizations and software that highlight African American achievements across various fields. Participants will work in teams of 2-4 members to develop projects that showcase historical contributions, educational progress, cultural impact, and other significant achievements in the African American community.
Key Details:
- Teams must create original work during the hackathon
- Open-source libraries and APIs are permitted and encouraged
- AI tools like GPT are allowed, but participants should understand and be able to explain their code
- Each team will have 3 minutes to present their project to the judges
- Projects will be evaluated on relevance, visualization effectiveness, creativity, technical implementation, and practical impact
Get started
Here's some skills and knowledge that might be helpful to learn:
Data Analysis and Visualization:
- Python with libraries like Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, Pandas, and NumPy
- Jupyter Notebooks for interactive development
- Tableau for creating dashboards
- Excel for basic data manipulation
- R for statistical computing
- JavaScript libraries like D3.js for web visualizations
- React.js and Next.js for full stack applications
Version Control:
- Git for code management and collaboration
- Teams will consist of 2-4 members
- A 20-minute team-building session will be held at the start
- Organizers and volunteers will help match participants based on complementary skills
Location:
232 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
