Note: I should have written this ages ago, but only now has the cold weather caught up with my nocturnal habits.
As part of the first keystone summer school we organised a summer school over four days in July 2015 at the University of Malta. The summer school was titled Keyword Search over Big Data and I was asked to help with organising the one-and-a-half-day big data hackathon. With my bioinformatics hat on, it was easy to fish for “big data” for the event.