List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

The ThinkCamp is a mixed event focusing on the Open Space, BarCamp and Hackathon formats that provide an open and creative environment for developing new ideas and projects. ThinkCamps invite participants from a diverse range of disciplines, skill-sets and experiences to collaborate together on addressing problems, rising to challenges, and taking advantage of new opportunities. At the ECSA ThinkCamp these will take the form of Citizen Science Challenges. Attendees will be presented with a number of Challenges to explore and invited to join the discussion at the ‘working group’ table around that issue. Feel free to move amongst the Challenges based on what you can learn, contribute, or simply enjoy being part of. There will be a Show & Tell at the end of the day, for each Challenge ‘owner’ and the teams that emerged to present back to all Conference attendees what took shape during the ThinkCamp. Support will be offered by the ThinkCamp organisers to take any of those ideas forward beyond the event itself.

Come to this hackathon to help make the city of San Diego one of the greenest and most connected cities in the world. Register for this San Diego Smart City Hackathon Kickoff & Info Session, to learn more about the format, specific objectives, challenges, tools and data sets for solving real city problems based on input from multiple city departments. The target is to come up with original creative solutions to difficult city problems, which require wireless sensors and a lot of data. Something, which has not been done before. Come to this info session to take part in this event and learn more about the hackathon!

IT support providers, sysadmins, developers, information security gurus, social media mavens, data analysts -- this is your event! The 11th annual Spring IT Staff Convention provides a phenomenal opportunity for networking, learning from peers in IT at Penn, seeing what other groups at Penn are doing with IT, and creating connections that last far beyond the convention itself. Topics covered will include: --> Information Security --> Big Data --> Classroom & Learning Technologies --> Enterprise Systems and Projects Overviews --> Novel Uses of Technology on Campus

Solve a data challenge for charity, win great prizes and do your contribution for a better world! This is a unique event where you can use data to solve challenges identified by the charities and a great chance to get mentored by senior leaders in Google, Barclays, University of Cambridge etc. You will be set four challenges to choose from, each related to a charity: Multiple Sclerosis Society, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Impetus-PEF, and World Migration Data by United Nations. You can take as many challenges you like and will be provided with data sets to do so. Each day there will be an optional hour of mentoring with charity leaders and industry experts to support you in building your solutions and you’ll have an option to work from sites at Barclays (Canary Wharf) and Digital Catapult NETV in Sunderland.

The FinTech Awards Hack is inviting developers, business minds and creatives to connect with FinTech’s top executives, press, VCs, academics and more while hacking a solutions for a better tomorrow. The main challenge will be to seeks solutions to problems plaguing the financial industry in the spirit of the Benzinga Fintech Awards. Create a tool, app, or website, that will address one of the following themes: Structuring data for evaluation and analysis (by humans or computers), Filtering out market noise, Transparency, Bridging the financial education gap, Innovation in mobile, or reduction of screen real estate used, Making financial data easily digestible by humans, Finding Alpha (higher returns than market average), and Fairness between institutional and retail investors.

Rise Hackathon is designed to test stellar teams and brilliant individuals for an exclusive opportunity to launch their start-ups or just showcase their apps to the world with the Barclays India Rise Program. Developers may join forces with any of the three squads presented to save the world from an alien invention. The mission is to tackle the Alien Race that have launched a three-pronged attack on critical Innovation Hubs on planet Earth. The Space Defence Command & Control Center (SDC3) is looking for geeks like you to rise against the evil intruders and defend the planet. You may join Squad I to defend the Blockchain Innovation Hub, Squad II to defend the FinTech Bot Army Base, or Squad III to fire your secret weapon!

Come to the OpenTravel Alliance, an organization that brings together professionals from numerous verticals in the travel industry. Nowhere else do you have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with leaders in hotels, car rental firms, cruise lines, railways, leisure suppliers, tour operators, and travel agencies, as well as some of the travel industry’s top technology companies and distributors. With the release of, and ongoing production on 2.0, your input is important, as OpenTravel continues to connect all verticals of the travel industry. Come and connect with business and technology leaders from across the travel industry, through workshops, OpenTravel’s first Hackathon Lite, and relaxed networking events. Enjoy thought provoking keynotes and stay ahead of the game with panel discussions on the future of the travel industry.

Engineers, designers, developers and data scientists in the Boston area! Join McKinsey Analytics and your peers for a day and half hacking event. Come and demonstrate your skills in one of three areas: (1) Stack Overflow, (2) Apache Milagro internet security framework, or (3) Internet of Things (IoT).

DataMission and the World Food Programme (WFP) are partnering up for a hackathon that will help in the fight against hunger. This event invites all data scientist, developers, non-profit organisations, experts in the hunger issues, marketers, and anyone who is willing to join their skills for a good cause! The topics covered at the hackathon include: Data analysis for developing more detailed and higher quality estimates on food security, Data-driven products to build a software, webpage or mobile application to encourage more survey participation, and Data visualization to enable decision making.

Wanted disruptors! If you're an aspiring entrepreneur with an idea that could disrupt the status quo--and make our lives better--then sign up for Hacking Transportation: @StartupBusSF and @UberDevelopers. StartupBus is an annual competition that challenges top tier talent to hop on a bus and conceive, build and launch a startup in 72 hours. Starting in San Francisco, participants will compete with fellow travelers on buses from 5 other cities, to see who can create the most innovative business to pitch on stage at Techstars' Boulder Startup Week.