Winter DataStorm

2025

Winter DAtaSTorm Overview

What is the InsightLegi Datastorm 2025?

The InsightLegi Winter Hackathon is a 10-day event where students will work together to collect federal, state, and municipal data to build a powerful policy analysis tool. You'll develop your skills in data scraping, working with real-world data.

What will you be doing?

  • Data Scraping: You’ll be collecting and organizing data from static and dynamic websites.

Why should you participate?

  • Develop real-world skills in data science, AI, and web scraping.

  • Earn badges and certificates for completing tasks and learning new skills.

  • Be part of a team building something that makes a real-world impact.

  • Opportunity to be a leader and have your work displayed on the daily leader board.

Milestones

Day 1-3

(Data Scraping of Static Websites)

  • Students will be taught to use tools for web scraping.

Day 4-6

(Teams Focus on Webscraping)

  • Students will be assigned to a Webscraping team focusing on federal, state, municipal, and humanitarian data.

  • Highlight key points like total budgets, fine revenues, and funding sources.

Day 7-10

(Data Verification and Tagging)

  • Organizing and tagging data into clear categories (e.g., budget, fines, penalties).

  • Using the tagging schema for structured data analysis.