Introduction
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New to Databricks? You do not need any prior experience to take part.
- Challenge website: https://daisi.online
- Participant Guide — full problem briefs, datasets, architecture guidance and judging detail: https://daisi.online/guide
- Hands-on training, 24 Sep, 7:00–10:00 PM SGT — "Get Started with Databricks: End to End". Free and virtual; every registrant is automatically enrolled
- Mentors — each of the top 10 teams is paired with a Databricks Singapore engineer for the two-week build sprint
- Questions? daisichallenge@databricks.com
Tools and Technologies
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Get your free workspace
- Databricks Free Edition (no cost, no credit card): https://www.databricks.com/learn/free-edition
What you get, and what to learn
- Unity Catalog — governance, data discovery and lineage: https://docs.databricks.com/data-governance/unity-catalog/
- Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables — declarative ingestion and pipelines: https://docs.databricks.com/ldp/
- Databricks SQL and AI/BI Dashboards — querying and visualisation: https://docs.databricks.com/sql/
- AI/BI Genie — ask questions of your data in natural language: https://docs.databricks.com/genie/
- Databricks Assistant — AI code generation in notebooks: https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/databricks-assistant.html
- MLflow — experiment tracking and model management: https://docs.databricks.com/mlflow/
- Foundation Model APIs — LLMs and agents on Databricks: https://docs.databricks.com/machine-learning/foundation-models/
- Databricks Academy — free self-paced learning: https://www.databricks.com/learn/training/home
- Documentation home: https://docs.databricks.com/
Singapore open data sources
- Data.gov.sg — https://data.gov.sg
- SingStat Table Builder — https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg
- LTA DataMall — https://datamall.lta.gov.sg
- NEA real-time APIs (weather, dengue clusters) — https://data.gov.sg/datasets
- HDB and URA open datasets — https://data.gov.sg
- OneMap API (geospatial) — https://www.onemap.gov.sg/apidocs/