Intl. Sports Hackdays 2014
- Hackathon
23–24 May 2014 @ Basel, Sierre und Mailand
Organised by Opendata.ch, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais
At the first International Sports Hackdays in Basel, Sierre and Milan, over 120 developers and designers, journalists and scientists, professionals and amateurs came together to prototype new approaches to making creative use of sports data. They built new types of hardware, new interfaces for fitness equipment and spectator apps, analysed Tour de France performances and FC Basel's tactics, sport education policies and infrastructures.
Experts on athletic data from companies such as Deltatre and Technogym and from Switzerland's National Sports Centre in Magglingen worked alongside data visualisation experts from Tuxtax and Interactive Things, academics, hackers and makers. Twelve projects came out of the two days – among them SecondLamp, BlitzPoll and Spörtle in Basel, OptiSports, Beat It and Sportee in Sierre, and a Tour des Géants analysis in Milan. The data used is on datahub.io.
The message to sport's governing bodies: while open government data has become an established force, sports data still sit in the closed coffers of functionaries – “Mr. Blatter, tear down this wall, make FIFA's data available to all!”
Photos
Photo: Opendata.ch
Documentation and recordings
- Opendata.ch, 30.05.2014: Data Activists Demand: Mr. Blatter, Tear Down This Wall! (Bericht)
- Wiki: International Sports Hackdays 2014 – die zwölf Projekte
- Netzwoche, 18.05.2014: Interview mit Hannes Gassert – «Es ist der perfekte Ort um zu sehen, wie aus Daten Ideen entstehen»
- Netzwoche, 27.05.2014 (Andreas Heer): Open Data – Wenn sich Hacker einen Sport aus dem Sport machen
- Oleg Lavrovsky, 25.05.2014: Training up to Open Data
Projects
- Beat It!
Mobile app that challenges you to race the bus to a chosen stop – using the open timetable data of transport.opendata.ch.
- BlitzPoll
Browser app that gathers and displays live opinions and emotions of the audience during football matches.
- Digital Trainer Prototype
User interface redesign for Technogym's Unity training machine.
- Linked Open Data for Bisses
App gathering knowledge about the Valais irrigation channels (bisses), their construction and the “cabanes” with local products in one place.
- MatchQuote
An internet-connected foosball table detects goals and compares the ongoing game with historic football matches – “you're playing like Liverpool–Basel today”.
- OptiSports
Decision support tool for the location, financing, planning and use of sports facilities.
- SecondLamp
Hardware indicator showing with the colour and brightness of two lamps how exciting a football match is at the moment – using data from the Federal Office of Sport's LPM system.
- Sportee
Finds people and places for your sport – partners by age, level and location.
- Spörtle
Visualisation of popular and traditional Swiss sports from the Jugend+Sport statistics, converted from PDF into tables.
- Tor des Géants visualization
Mathematical analysis of the data of the Tor des Géants trail running race.
- Tour de France API
An attempt to aggregate all available historic open data about the Tour de France.
- Tour de France infoviz
Visualisation of the roles and careers of the riders and teams of the 92nd Tour de France (2005).
Programme
Friday, 23 May
- 09:00
Türöffnung
Ablauf in Basel laut Besprechung mit i-net vom 3.4.2014. Ab 9 Uhr Kaffee, Wasser, Softdrinks, Früchte.
- 09:15
Begrüssung
- 09:20–10:00
Präsentationen Projekte & Datensätze
- 10:00–12:00
Findungsphase
- 12:00–12:30
Matchmaking
- 12:30–14:00
Einfaches Mittagessen, Pause
- 14:00–02:00
Arbeitsphase
- 17:00
Kurzupdates der Teams, Input von anderen Standorten
Saturday, 24 May
- 09:00
Türöffnung, Fortsetzung der Projekte
- 10:00
Begrüssung neue Teilnehmer, Matchmaking
- 11:00
Kleiner Brunch
- 18:00
Umbau, alle Teilnehmer zur Bar
- 18:30
Abendanlass: Präsentation der Resultate, Inputs anderer Standorte, Botschaften Stakeholder
Bier, Wurst und Brot.
- 20:45
Champions League Final auf Leinwand
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Verabschiedung
Nach dem Spiel.
Read the original announcement
Sport is fun, sport is healthy, sport is a business – and sport is also data. Results and times, athletes’ performance curves, passes played from A to B in real time, your bike tours: there is more and more data on more and more sports!
That’s why it’s time to kick off the first International Sports Hackdays: two days of data wrestling, visualising games and working on apps that thrill fans and athletes, learning from one another, getting better and having fun.
Venues: Basel (hosted by i-net and Webilea), Sierre (HES-SO Valais-Wallis at the Techno-Pôle) and Milan (Tuxtax). To close on Saturday evening: the UEFA Champions League final on the big screen.
PS: A special invitation to all Zurich folk who would never travel to Basel: “Whoever doesn’t hack in Basel is no true Zuricher!”, says the born-and-bred Zuricher with an Eastern Swiss accent.
