Yotta Night 2.0: TheDataTeam Hackathon

Yotta Night is the Hackathon that TheDataTeam conducts every year where whole TheDataTeam across different geographies comes together but divided into different teams where each team will develop an idea into a prototype within 24 hours

With utmost gratitude, I Thank Mr. Pushkaraj Kale. Thank you so much, sir for dedicating your 3 hours for Yotta Night 2.0 to hear out our ideas, you are a true inspiration to us and we look up to you as our role model.

My sincere Thanks to Senior Management Team Rangarajan Vasudevan, Abhijit Ghosh, Prabhakar A K, Gourisankar Mukherjee, Pooja Parthi, Mahesh Karmarkar, Arunkarthick P and Sateesh Krishnan for conducting Yotta Nights

My team E ≠ MC2(just a fun team name and not challenging Einstein theory). Our Idea was Classification of sound using Deep Learning and generating relevant alerts. Example: If there are Gunshots fired in the neighborhood, our prototype not just identifies it as Gunshot but also makes a call to 911 or 100 with SMS which has a link of the location and 5-10 seconds video clip where the Gunshot has been fired.

Things we did right at Yotta Night 2.0:

1.      Idea Generation: This was a very important step where we had to come up with ideas which were technical and resource feasible to be completed within 24 hours. We came up with 7 ideas and based on complexity score, we selected the best 3 and proposed it to the Senior Management team.

2.      Team Work: Once the idea was shortlisted out of the 3 by Senior Management Team. We broke down the idea into deliverables and assigned it to relevant people with their agreement. This is one of the most special things I found only in TheDataTeam i.e Cohesiveness and Teamwork was not just seen within the teams but also across the teams where one team helped others when needed

3.      Strategy and Planning: We have been planning for Yotta Night 2.0 since a couple of weeks, for half an hour each day on an ideal Idea and for relevant resources to implement the idea within a day.

4.      Implementation and Deadlines: All your plans and strategies might be on a piece of paper but if you don’t implement all your hardwork will go for a toss. Right from the Kick-off call we started working on our respective deliverables keeping deadlines in mind. We all decided to Start developing core product then if we had time add additional features

5.      Freedom: Every person in the team was given ownership and enough space to implement and deliver their assigned tasks and add additional functionality

6.      Experience: Having worked with Sunil Saini and Balachandran Siddharthan during Yotta Night 1.0 was learning experience for me and working under able leadership Ranga, Abhijit, Kaushik, Avinash, helped me organize and delivering things under pressure

7.      Communication: This is where most of the teams fail when working across boundaries. 90% of the time you should be communicating and we did exactly the same. We kept informing the progress on Microsoft Teams (TheDataTeam internal messenger) and had status calls every 3-4 hours. At the end of every call apart from the discussion on progress and current status, we had clear action items and time for the next call

My hearty thanks to E ≠ MC2 team with Nithin Rao Thokur, Sathishkumar Ramasamy, Sahil KK, Dinesh Reddy Challa, Arunkumar Palaniappan and Komal Verma

I sincerely Thank Other Teams who participated and implemented following ideas: Gesture sensing AI, Repository searching bots, Hand Sketch to webpage in a flash, CV Carbon footprint scoring for everyday use products, Crowdsourced Road condition broadcast & Location tagged ToDo lists