List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Join Hack the Burgh, a hackathon where students will come together, team up and collaborate to build cool stuff with data and special challenges provided. Also home to the top Uni Werewolf team in the UK! It will be a 24 hour long programming event where hundreds of passionate students will work on innovative applications. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, learn from mentors, and make cool stuff. This hackathon is very beginner friendly. Everybody is there to help each other and have fun!

This is a 12-hour hiring hackathon for Jigsaw to discover and hire Java Developer and Front-End Developer. Jigsaw Academy is a premium online school of Analytics who offer courses in big data and business data analytics for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, as well as specialized courses for specific sectors. They train professionals from all over the world in data mining, data science, and predictive analytics, equipping them with the data analytics skills that are in demand in today's workplace. So come along, show of your skills and get the opportunity to join the team!

This is Europe's first ever Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. Hackney Community Law Centre (HCLC) is providing free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs. The core challenge for this Hackathon will be to address that 50% of clients drop out after one meeting, for a variety of cultural, social and language reasons. HCLC will start the Hackathon pitching three problem statements around these issues. Prizes will include £1000 worth of startup legal advice and £300 worth of Amazon Prizes. Come and create robust digital solutions that will enable Hackney Law Centre to deliver legal services in a more efficient way and be used by many other law centres across the UK!

Join this great hackathon on data science for a whole weekend of creative thinking around the use of data in the justice system and show what is possible when innovative minds come together. All people from a broad range of technology, digital, mathematical and data science backgrounds as well as justice system experts are invited to come and build things that could go on to become real, usable tools and improve people’s lives.

A Hackathon focused on building new solutions to improve the museum experience, enhancing contents, engaging audience and improving to the educational experience. A two-day event where you and your team will work with contents provided by E-SPACE partners directly and through the Technical Space to reinvent the potential of pre-existing open data resources. Participants will discuss with museum experts about audience’s and museum’s needs, from the marketing and educational perspectives, and learning valuable information on how these institutions operate.

This is a hackathon on big data where you will be asked to build projects that remix big amounts of data. Either obtaining the data through APIs or by scraping. The tools that you will be using include the Python programming language and Google App Engine. Creating an application for a few users or millions of users is fundamentally the same in GAE. All participants will be placed in pairs. One member of the team can gather the data while the other can prepare the application itself or one member can prepare the web app while the other prepares the mobile app. Towards the end of the event, each team will present their project and each team votes for another team for best hackathon project. All projects completed at the hackathon will be fully production ready!

This is a hackathon for home furnishings. With Furlenco's premium designs and affordable rentals, it has taken the concept of rental furniture to a new level of comfort and coolness. This event will be a 24 hours hiring hackathon. You will build the systems that make the entire business work. You will get to work on the core components of the technology stack - from the platforms powering the web portal, mobile apps, customer experience systems, the warehouse management & automation platforms to the Analytics & Data platforms.

The BetterHack organized by BetterCloud is a fun and publicly hackathon for participants to team up and race to detect suspicious activity within a billion Kafka messages. Prizes totalling $5000 will be given out to the top teams in each category and each team will be receiving their own Cloud-based VM. So bring your own team or join one at this special event!

The CLUNC Weather Hackathon is dedicated to think forward, developing ideas and hacking data. Open to experts, students, autodidacts – come and enjoy the creative exchange of innovations and experience, gain insights into the latest concepts, network and establish new relationships. You will be provided with the necessary weather data, mentors to help you get what you need plus access to tools that are used to build text engines, at no charge. Cash prizes will be given awat to the top two hack teams.

This is a hackathon organized rganised by the British Council, HackManchester, Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), T2F, and Code for Pakistan, for Karachiites to come together and think creatively to address issues in Karachi's society using design and technology. The event will be focused around researching, collaborating in a team to determine solutions for various problems, rather than prototyping products. Alongside your team, a product mentor will be available to help develop your ideas into solutions. At the end of the day, you’ll pitch your idea to a panel of judges.