Pre-work
Once projects submitted have been reviewed by the jamboree planning committee, comprising experts in oncology, data science, and other relevant fields based on established criteria, applicants will be notified to confirm their availability and interest by mid-July. The planning committee, in coordination with CRDC, NCCR, Data Access Committee (DAC), and other support staff, will engage participants and their teams through recurring virtual pre-work sessions (July - late October).
Prework is critical to the success of this event. The goal is to prepare and orient selected teams with documentation, tutorials, and code for account setup, data access, cloud computing, and other necessary tasks, so that participants will arrive at the in-person event ready to analyze data. Preparatory work could include how to access managed and controlled data for the project teams facilitated by the NCI DAC. A citizen scientist and/or a graduate student who is ineligible to request controlled-access data through dbGaP can team up with a principal investigator or an equivalent to gain access to such data.
Due to the time constraints, selected and confirmed project teams are strongly encouraged to begin their projects before and/or during the virtual preparatory sessions. Project teams are required to complete data downloads or bring in all data into their cloud computing environment before the event.
Although completion of data analysis or tool development is not required, summaries of observations, codes, methods, and feedback on data processing, data access, data analysis tools, as well as suggestions for improvement in relevant areas, are required.