List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

This is a 24-hour Hackathon organised by CREATe, the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy inviting you to come and explore cutting edge research, develop tools and challenge assumptions about the role of copyright in society. The purpose of this hackathon is to explore ways to innovatively mine, analyse and visualise data about the effects of copyright.

Hackcité brings together digital actors, biodiversity and land. Together you will develop useful, concrete and innovative urban biodiversity and living environments. Participate in Hackcité to take on the challenge of green data, create a digital map prototype for Montreal, and win amazing prizes! Expand your skills and creativity in a team with other people from different backgrounds, be part of a unique event in an atmosphere both studious and relaxed, connect with top professionals, and most importantly - help to make the world a better place!

This is the eighth Dutch Meet Magento event where hundreds of shop owners, e-commerce experts and developers will join to gain knowledge, exchange experiences and network. Learn more about Magento 2 Marketing and Conversion, linking with Magento backend systems development, theming and Magento's Enterprise and Community versions, and get inspired to get more out of your the Magento platform. The actual hackathon Meet Magento Netherlands will take place on may 14.

Hackingfest is a hackathon series for software, hardware developers and designers to come and participate in a project to improve life. There will be seminars and conferences held to become familiar with the issues and technologies so you can get the opportunity to develop projects with the hackingfest technologies. At the end of the event, applications will be evaluated by the jury, you can start your project before the hackathon, but if you did, please inform the event organizers about the status of your project while participating in the event. Participants are free to use any technology they want to use in their applications. 24 hours drinks and food will be provided free to participants. All you need to bring is your own laptop.

This is a free, hands-on workshop to enable participants to create a database driven web application with Flask (a microframework for Python) and SQLAlchemy (a Python SQL toolkit) using a Computational Thinking process.  On completion, participants will be able to teach their students how to create a simple web application using Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy as part of KS3-KS5 curriculum. The workshop will cover databases, networks, web applications and GUI aspects of the KS3-KS5 CS curriculum. You will learn how to use Flask and SQLAlchemy libraries, set up Python environment. display and get data with HTML forms, work with CRUD database actions, and putting all of these together (Web app + HTML + database) to create a simple database driven web application. The workshop is open to secondary school Computer Science teachers of with a basic to intermediary level of Python programming skills. No prior experience with SQLAlchemy and Flask is required. Attendees should bring their own laptops. All attendees will receive free individual access to Codio and course materials for 12 months. The workshop duration is 3 hours including a 30 min networking session with free snacks and refreshments.

This hackathon will brin together three countries, three time zones and three tech hubs. Crowd2Map Tanzania was one of 7 projects selected in the Open Seventeen challenge, which rallies the public to use open data as a means of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This event is part of the project, organizing a triple mapping day in Dar+London+Vilnius. This will be a fun hackathon between the three "camps", as all will compare the results at the end, and  bridge techies in the 3 locations via video conference and chat throughout the event across locations.

VentureLAB is hosting the 4th annual GO OPEN DATA CONFERENCE 2016 (GOOD16), supporting innovative entrepreneurs, many of whom use open data to build businesses based on open data or create disruptive solutions to an existing problem. The theme for this year's conference is "Better Living Through Open Data." Focusing on how open data can be used to create innovative solutions and new businesses that help address community problems such as transportation or affordable housing. Anyone is welcome to join this event, open data is the potential to create a better future for everyone!

The BreizhCamp team is inviting you to participate in a collective effort to make their tools call-for-papers a multi-line conference service and community. Many things can be done on this day including: recovering code, conversion of basic access to use a "TenantID", recovery of the UI, creating a multi-conferences IU transverse, infra and many more. Everyone is welcome !

The Green Data Campaign is a way to learn the tools used by Data Scientists and impact the community. Learn about and create change through emerging technologies together with experts and community leaders who will provide you with resources and to develop proposals. The campaign includes four events throughout the month of May: 3 workshops and 1 design sprint - followed by a month of development on a project/proposal for Verdir and Soverdi, to be presented at the end of the month of June. The goal of the Green Data Campaign is to show the impact of data on real world problems.

This is the first grassroots hackathon for Hillary 2016. The events aim is to help Hillary Clinton get elected as the next President of the United States by creating innovative new technology to get more votes! This event is inviting all engineers, technologists, designers, policy wonks, and volunteers to work on next-generation campaign tools that will reach new voters and donors, motivate and coordinate volunteers, and analyze data. Come and win tickets to an event with Hillary Clinton!