List of hackathons about big data in 2020

Hackers in and around Clearwater, Florida! Are you interested in finding ways to defeat Covid-19? If so, you're invited to participate in the Sunshine State Hackathon "Hack the Crisis" for Covid-19. You'll be challenged to find solutions for a variety of problem areas, including Health, Small Business, Coworking, Pandemics, Banking, Insurance, Survival, Lifehacks, Jobs, etc. Come compete to win prizes as you collaborate to help stop the spread of the virus and overcome the socio-economic crisis that is impacting the workplace, healthcare, food security, government services, supply chain, logistics, and the environment across the State of Florida. Check the tips page for practical insights into hackathon participation.

Inventors and creative people, developers, designers, data experts, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts in the South Tyrol! NOI Techpark invites you to take part in the Summer edition of the NOI Hackathon. Participate in person at the Lido or online at this 24-hour event! Over two days, you'll get to create an innovative Open Data and/or Open Source project, which you'll pitch to a jury for the chance to win amazing prizes. All presentations and code will be published on a public git repository as an Open Source prototype. Find answers to your hackathon questions at the tips page!

Despite recent medical and technological advancements, there remains many unaddressed health issues and many patients who do not have adequate solutions to live healthy lives.Startups, you are invited tojoin theAstellas Rx+® Healthcare Innovation Challengeandshowcase your technological solutions that will drive transformation in one of the two areas: A/ Empowering sensory-disabled people through technology Enhance the quality of life for patients with sensory disabilities (e.g. blindness, deafness, etc.) or help them retrieve part of their functions. B/ Improving access to healthcare through technology Speed up and make access to primary healthcare available for all individuals, especially to the disadvantaged groups. Winners of the challenge will be able to: Win proof of concepts worth a total up to USD$60,000 Implement their solutions in collaboration with Astellas Go on a sponsored trip to Japan to attend the Grand Finals*! *Prize is only valid once the Grand Final is confirmed to be held offline. Showcase your ideas on how to make healthcare better, more affordable and accessible to all individuals in the world by submitting a 10 slides PPT on our platform here:https://bit.ly/3gx7U00 Deadline is 18th October 2020.Together let’s leverage technology for humanity. Join our challenge today and create a healthier world with Astellas!

The third M+ Hackathon, ‘City of Objects’, will take place online on 1–15 August 2020. We invite students, designers, artists, technologists, and cultural enthusiasts to embark on a journey that explores the concept of objects through different lenses—everyday life, personal and cultural identities, and virtuality. The format of this hackathon will be in the style of a two-week online design thinking workshop where facilitators Chun-wo Pat and Christian Marc Schmidt will invite participants to create projects that examine, interpret, and activate objects in a visual culture context. Participants are encouraged to make use of design practices to engage with a wide range of materials, from photographs to data sets. The M+ Collections open data set will also be made available through the M+open accessprogramme—over 6,200 records can be explored on the M+Collections Beta platform, via theM+ GitHub repositoryand thepublic M+ API. No knowledge of coding is required to participate in this hackathon, and any out-of-the-box software and techniques can be used. Read more and join the discussionhere.

Starting up servers and constructing databases are bothersome tasks for your project when you just want to concentrate on utilizing yourJavaScriptskills. This workshop is forfront-end developerswho want to spend less time setting up their back-end infrastructure, and want to concentrate on theUI/UXof their projects. The workshop will guide you on how to: Use the GUI of the Kintone platform to create databases (Kintone Apps) Utilize the databases to store and manage data Apply client-side JavaScript to visualize the database data as Bubble Clouds Use Kintone’s REST API initiator to call REST APIs from client-side JavaScript What You'll Walk Away With A1 year free Kintone Developer Licensethat you can use to build your projects on A functioningBubble Cloud Projectbuilt with data that lies within yourKintone databases Knowledge and experience on how to use ano-code/low-code platformto reduce the amount of coding needed for your projects Understanding on how toavoid CORS errorswhen calling REST APIs from client-side JavaScript Directions on future projects you can work on What is Kintone? Kintone is a no-code/low-code cloud platform for teams to easily share and collaborate on their data efficiently. On the frontend, JavaScript, CSS, and/or HTML can be added to further enhance the UI/UX of the Kintone Databases. Visit our developer website to get acquainted with the Kintone API:https://developer.kintone.io/

We inviteremote groups to work collaborativelyon solutions that illustrate the impact of the pandemic on animal health related areas that can help the public, government and business to act in an informed and sustainable manner. In this first edition, the Hack will focus on addressing solutions forCompanion Animals(aka pets!).Projectscan take the form of written analysis or forecasts, data visualizations, live data dashboards, or any other creative solutions to develop innovative approaches to the current crisis. The PetHack will provide you with the resources you need to explore your ideas, experiment and accelerate results. We will facilitateaccess to pet, animal health and coronavirus-related open dataalong with additional data made available by our vHive partners. Data will be made available in a powerful platform which will allow you to collaborate with others to define, develop and execute your innovative solutions and make a real difference in addressing the challenges facing the animal health sectors in times of the pandemic.

Startup types, techie professionals, students, and the general public in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa! The Asian Development Bank and Asian Institute of Management invite you to participate in the ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020: Shaping the New Normal. You'll be tasked with coming up with an innovative solution that can help restore economic activity in the post-COVID-19 environment. You'll get to address one or more of the following challenges: Tracking the real-time economic impact of COVID-19, Using earth observation data to monitor the economic activity in select countries in Asia, or Increasing credit access of Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). Compete in Lagos for a chance to win $US10,000 in funds to pilot your solution, as well as ADB incubation and access funding support for implementation. Follow hackathon tips from the experts!

Startup types, techie professionals, students, and the general public in Singapore! The Asian Development Bank and Asian Institute of Management invite you to participate in the ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020: Shaping the New Normal. You'll be tasked with coming up with an innovative solution that can help boost the recovery of economic activity in the post-COVID-19 environment. You'll get to address one or more of the following challenges: Tracking the real-time economic impact of COVID-19, Using earth observation data to monitor the economic activity in select countries in Asia, or Increasing credit access of Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). Compete in Singapore for a chance to win $US10,000 in funds to pilot your solution, as well as ADB incubation and access funding support for implementation. Follow hackathon tips from the experts!

Startup types, techie professionals, students, and the general public in Indonesia! The Asian Development Bank and Asian Institute of Management invite you to participate in the ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020: Shaping the New Normal. You'll be tasked with coming up with an innovative solution that can help restore economic activity in the post-COVID-19 environment. You'll get to address one or more of the following challenges: Tracking the real-time economic impact of COVID-19, Using earth observation data to monitor the economic activity in select countries in Asia, or Increasing credit access of Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). Compete in Jakarta for a chance to win $US10,000 to pilot test your solution, as well as ADB incubation and access funding support for implementation. Be prepared to participate with the best hackathon advice.

Startup types, techie professionals, students, and the general public in and around New Delhi! The Asian Development Bank and Asian Institute of Management invite you to participate in the ADB-AIM Hackathon 2020: Shaping the New Normal. You'll get to come up with an innovative solution that helps boost the recovery of economic activity in the post-COVID-19 environment. You'll be asked to address one or more of the following challenges: Tracking the real-time economic impact of COVID-19, Using earth observation data to monitor the economic activity in select countries in Asia, or Increasing credit access of Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). Come to New Delhi and compete for a chance to win $US10,000 in funds to pilot your solution, as well as ADB incubation and access funding support for implementation. Visit our hackathon tips page for advice on participation!