Winners of Databricks Free Edition Hackathon

An automated pipeline that ingests raw technical demo videos from YouTube, distills their content into a structured knowledge base, and makes it searchable. Turning scattered video into queryable data won it first place in the inaugural Free Edition hackathon spanning 16 countries.

A recipe recommender that structures raw recipe data with NLP and clusters dishes by theme and flavor profile, so users can ask in natural language and get personalized suggestions. Took third place as a practical showcase of text-based workflows.

A space-weather analysis system for power grid operators: it predicts grid failures triggered by solar flares and serves up 7-day forecasts, risk thresholds and recommended actions, applying data engineering and ML to critical-infrastructure resilience.