List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Are you a champion of democracy? Come join like-minded people at Open Democracy Now! Work collaboratively to build practical digital solutions to the challenges of participatory democracy. Participate with an open source/open data proiect that can help expand open government initiatives.

HunterHackFest is calling out all Hunter region Hackers, Hipsters and Hustlers to join a dash of MakerFaire spirit, a pinch of StartupWeekend spice and some heat from the crucible of TheEdwards Bar and Innx.Hub workspace to quicken the digital pulse of the Hunter region and its urban spaces. Your creations will be part of the Hunter Innovation Festival!

Looking for fullstack technical talent? Find it at Elevation Academy's 1st Coding Bootcamp talent expo featuring their uniquely talented graduates. Elevation Academy graduates have hands-on experience in full-stack programming, with expertise in Javascript, MEAN Stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node), software engineering best practices and more. The talent expo will feature demos of each final project for you to discover their talent, new found expertise, story, and more than anything ambition. Elevation Academy's pool of students come from 8 different countries, with diverse backgrounds from marketing expertise, entrepreneurship, biology, and UI/UX design. The event will conclude with a panel on “Innovation and recruitment - why innovation depends on recruiting the right people.

The Future of Encryption, Housing, and Regulation is organized by Data4America bringing together the smartest minds in policy and technology. The event will feature two fireside chats along with a networking reception. Blake Masters will host the discussion with Keith Rabois. Kim-Mai Culter will moderate a conversations with Scott Wiener. The Co-Hosts is Lincoln Initiative, an educational non-profit bringing data science and data visualization to the understanding of politics. So come along, listen, learn, network, and exchange ideas!

Developers, data engineers and scientists! Come and show the world how you can do more with Spark! Build an Apache Spark™ app to address a real business problem related to customer care, marketing, risk management, or operations. Your app should be something that a business’s stakeholders could use and deploy in the future.

Data scientists, coders, business tinkers, creative types! Come and help create mobility solutions for the future. Participate in the Smart Transport Hackathon and set your mind and skills to create ideas and prototypes that address key developmental needs within the UK’s transport network.

On the National Day of Civic Hacking, are you civic minded? Interested in help businesses and communities in Delaware to do more and better with data? Join community members, business leaders, creatives, and programmers at DataWorks: Delaware's First Open Data Hackathon. Don’t code? No problem. Successful groups will still need you. Together, participants will build prototypes of open source software, with a goal to make open data accessible and useful to businesses, residents, and local government.

Come together with other coders, designers, officials, and sponsors for a day long hackathon focusing on using Nashville’s open data portal to improve the Nashville city government's ability to serve its citizens through greater transparency and more effective feedback mechanisms.

Are you passionate about coding, UX design, marketing, strategy or business development? Can you build an app or a game that revolutionizes the consumers' power consumption experience? Got ideas on how to leverage social media? What about imroving the human-to-appliance interaction? The only limit is your imagination! You have the power! Register for the EnPower Hackathon today!

Are you an API whiz? Come and participate in a special hackathon and hack around three new APIs provided by Akeneo, OpenIO and Sevenhugs! The challenge! Use one of the three featured APIs to create brand new use cases. Akeneo is a Product Information Management platform; OpenIO is an Object Storage API; and Sevenhugs Smart Remote offers multi-device control from a touchscreen interface. There will be three tracks with a different API for each. Each team compete in one track only for the prizes for that track!