over 3 years ago

Clarification on SageMaker Studio Lab, SDG datasets, and Q&A!

Hi Everyone,

We hope you're having fun prepping your projects for the Amazon Sustainability Development Initiative Global Hackathon! We have a few updates and resources to share as we lead into the final weeks:

Have questions for Amazon? Submit them by Tuesday, Aug. 23rd

We know some of you have questions about the datasets, the available technical tools, and the SDGs in general. To streamline getting the questions into the hands of the best group at Amazon to answer it, we’re asking you to fill in this quick form by Tuesday, August 23rd. We’ll gather responses from Amazon and post the answers by Friday, August 26th.

AWS SageMaker Studio Lab - immediate access

There has been some confusion around AWS SageMaker Studio Lab and AWS SageMaker Studio.

SageMaker Studio Lab is an entirely free service that allows you to experiment in an Open Source lab environment, JupyterLab, which is hosted in the cloud. As part of the hackathon, we are offering a referral code, which you can request here, for SageMaker Studio Lab to get immediate approval for an account. Without this code, approvals can take up to a week.

Make sure you are going to the Lab here: SageMaker Studio Lab - not to SageMaker Studio.

SDGs and Datasets

You are welcome to build for any of the Sustainable Development Goals, however, the 135 available ASDI datasets are generally focused on a few main topics. [ Feel free to work with any additional datasets that are not in the ASDI catalog and be creative on how to incorporate one of the ASDI datasets in your problem solving. Does weather (e.g., NEXRAD) or climate data (e.g., CMIP6) have an impact in the space you are exploring? Could you benefit from using population information (e.g., population density)? Would looking at satellite imagery (e.g., Sentinel2) help provide context to your problem? Is air quality data (OpenAQ) a good proxy for human activity? The possibilities are endless!

Here is a shortcut to the ASDI datasets. Check them out!

Cheers,

Shawni, Hackathon Manager