List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Come join the Global Open Data day where citizens gathering in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. Let's get together and see what interesting projects we can come up with on Hong Kong data!

CodeAcross is an annual civic hackathon, this time joining the County of Sacramento and supporting their #Hack4Sac Innovation Campaign to connect, make teams, and hack on projects you like. You don't need to be a coder to participate!

This is a Hackathon for students, teachers, journalists and technologists to tear apart the Yahoo! News Feed dataset! This includes demographic breakdowns (age, gender, and location) and user-device interaction data. The data spans several Yahoo! properties, including the Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Sports. Your challenge will be to tease through the data to find and tell stories about consumption habits. As a follow-up to the News Corp and voxgov hackathons, the Yahoo! Hack will help showcase the interplay between journalism and data science, and how new innovations can broaden our perspective of how we consume news!

Governments and companies have huge tourist data that could make much more possible than it is doing now. Your challenge will be to work with datasets from Tourism Flanders, the City of Mechelen, Westtoer, Lannoo, the Province of Antwerp and RouteYou, to conjure up an innovative concept, an interesting business case or a technically idea that will make a change! Whether you are a professional developer, hobbyist or student: anyone who knows something about coding with data can participate!

OpenData Day is inviting all experts, journalists, citizens and government leaders to come and learn how to read data and develop innovative ideas and solutions for the environment and cultural sites. This is an opportunity to discuss the value of OpenData and free knowledge for business, the citizens and the government: transparency in civic participation, opportunities for the territory. The meeting involves comparison between local institutions and activists OpenPuglia: a group of private citizens, civic hackers, Puglia students and local industry representatives and academics, who work voluntarily to create new culture with Open Data, and a new way of understanding the relationship between information, the digital and the rights of citizens. It will look in particular on the monitoring and sharing of environmental data , and the enhancement of cultural sites in Puglia. In the afternoon the hackathon will take place where attendees will learn how to collect data and how to read them in relation to the territory for which and on which they are processed. You will explore Wikidata, the free and collaborative database supporting the functioning of Wikipedia, the free and voluntary encyclopedia. Discover how to geo-locate the sites of the Apulian culture and enrich the free OpenStreetMap.

Zühlke Hannover will host and sponsor a Hackathon for the 2016 open data day. Hacking, making, analyzing, writing and all other forms of open DataWork!

The Calgary Regional Partnership and The City of Calgary want you to participate at this year’s Hackathon! You will have three-days to develop a software solution, such as a mobile app, website, or mapping product that uses open data from the Calgary region. This year’s theme is connectivity – how will your idea help connect the Calgary region? You will be given the opportunity to pitch your product to a panel of judges for the chance to win cash prizes!

The Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) is teaming up with New School Buildings Sustainable Initiatives to host the #ClimateCitizen Hackathon with a mission to confront the global climate crisis! Come and take part in The Climate Action Plan which will address operations, academics, and campus culture to establish a comprehensive strategy to act on climate. Challenges include data Interpretation and Visualization, TNS Carbon “Internet of Things”, Climate Action Campaign, and Energy to Art.

Open Data Day DC is a yearly hackathon and training event in Washington, DC on the same day as more than 100 other Open Data Day events throughout the world. Friday, March 4 will be workshops only and Saturday, March 5 will be hacking & workshops. No prior experience with open data or programming is needed, there will be lots of opportunities to learn and participate for everyone. The workshops on Friday and Saturday will cover many aspects of open data, including an introduction, maps, and data science. The hackathon session on Saturday will let participants build prototypes and tools on a diverse range of subjects, from municipal issues here in DC to international development and government accountability.

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