# The Transplant Story That Sparked a Hackathon Project

DevFeed: [The Transplant Story That Sparked a Hackathon Project](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-transplant-story-that-sparked-a-hackathon-project-5825.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/the-transplant-story-that-sparked-a-hackathon-project>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-12-11T18:00:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [For the Love of Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/for-the-love-of-code.md>), [Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-science.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

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## AI overview

NephroCompass is an open-source clinical decision support tool created by data engineer Deepti Bahel after her kidney transplant experience. Developed as a hackathon project, it uses a curated Chronic Kidney Disease dataset and machine learning models including XGBoost, random forest, and logistic regression to estimate CKD risk from laboratory values. SHAP provides explanations for the model predictions.

## Source excerpt

"I've worked with Postgres, Snowflake, and AWS in my professional environment, but for building a side project, I wanted something easier to set up. It hardly took me 10 minutes to understand how to link Neon with my application and how to make my ML workflows connect to it" (Dee...