DataPalooza is a next-level EDM festival. What sets it apart? The organizers are constantly looking for ways technology can improve every festival-goer’s experience. Consider the FOMO conundrum: at every festival, thousands of people move between stages to catch the best DJ sets. But attendees have no way of knowing what the hottest stage is in real-time. That’s where you come in.

The organizers of DataPalooza have asked you to develop a solution that helps festival-goers quickly identify the DJ stage where the crowd is happiest. You’ve seen buzz around computer vision, machine learning, and IoT, and you want to use this technology to detect crowd emotions. There are existing ML models that do face and emotion detection, and there are two ways that predictions (inference) can be done: on the cloud, and in the camera itself. Which one will work best for the festival? You’re going to test both and find out.