2017 Hackathon, San Diego

Your challenge is to create an app, platform, and/or technology that can tie into the public health theme using datasets provided via our special GitHub site.

Click to Register for BIG DATA HACKATHON, SAN DIEGO

Hacking Big Data and Open Data in San Diego #Hack4SD

Dates:February 18, 2017 
(1st Round)
February 25-26,  2017 
(2nd Round)Location:Peterson Gym (Rm 153) 
San Diego State UniversityFree Parking:Parking Structure #7     Level 2 (top level): MapCost:FREEContact:Prof. Amy Schmitz Weiss
Prof. Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Prof. Atsushi NaraGithub:Github


Cost

This Hackathon is FREE
Bring your ingenuity, creativity, imagination, a laptop and a charger! Anyone is welcome to participate. 
Students, engineers, developers, programmers, journalists, scientists, public officials, and community members are just a few people who may find this Big Data event of interest. 
Food and beverages will be provided as courtesy of our sponsors!
 

Prizes

Teams will have an opportunity to win awards for the best overall project. 
Just create an app, platform and/or technology that can tie into the public heath theme to win the prizes! 

1st Prize

$600

2nd Prize

$300

3rd Prize

$150


Judge Criteria

  • Quality of the idea
  • Innovativeness / Creativeness
  • Practicality / Readiness
  • Technical Difficulty
  • Quality of the presentation

Location

San Diego State University
San DiegoUnited States

Dates

From 18th February 2017 - 09:00 AM
to 26th February 2017 - 05:00 PM

Prizes

1st Prize - $600
2nd Prize - $3$15000
3rd Prize - $150
Most innovative proposal - $100
Strongest teamwork - $100
Perspectium prize: Most thorough back-end code - $150