List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Healthcare? Big Data? Healthcare hackers, come and collaborate on open data/health data.

Come participate at Hack N Akron and help shape the city of Akron! Collaborate with Akron's leading tech, business, and design talent — alongside city officials — to solve some of the city's biggest challenges. →Creating an open data API for the city: Help create a repository of standardized data that is easily accessible, searchable, and relatable to the public. →Create neighborhood branding: Help build a positive image that attracts desired investments of time, money and energy to support neighborhood revitalization.

For those lucky enough to be invited by a partner, come witness the opening ceremony of the World Championship Finals of the data science games! 80 of the best computer science students from around the world will come to hear the announcement of the final challenge and a panel will speak about deep learning and the changes it may cause to the world of technology.

Developer? DevOps? Designer? Ever had a great idea for an app that would solve a global problem? Do you have a great proposal for a software project and don't have anyone to help you bring it to life? Haven't been able to work on your idea for lack of time or resources? All are welcome to participate in the Cloud-App-Hackathon. This Hackathon is for all those eager to learn, meet people and solve real problems of global impact through cloud applications.

Collaborate to develop a common set of teaching and training resources for students and researchers wishing to use and learn about Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation using Lucene. The tools and resources built during the event will be uploaded to GitHub and shared with the community and will form the basis for tutorials and teaching materials.

With the presidential election coming up, elections are on everyone's mind. If you are interested in the outcomes of major elections in the near future then check out Voatz' community day. At this event upcoming voters will test and provide feedback on potential new voting tech with real time results, while simulating current issues including the Massachusetts State Primary.

Singapore hackers! Come help realize Singapore's Smart Nation strategy! As part of this nation-wide strategy, IRAS aims to provide intuitive and convenient digital services to taxpayers and best-in-class tax administration services. At the IRAS Hackathon, you're invited to co-create new solutions with the community and professional experts to deliver taxpayer-centred experiences for SMEs, the self-employed, and individual taxpayers. The hackathon will center around the following opportunity areas: 1. Deliver digital services that are convenient and responsive to taxpayers' needs and queries. 2. Anticipate taxpayers' needs and deliver the right level of service or support at the right time. 3. Provide seamless integration of tax preparation and filing with taxpayers' existing systems and life events.

Are you are techie, creative and enterprising? Are you an entrepreneur, freelancer or student with an IT and data background? You're invited to participate in the Commercial Hackathon to create innovative solutions to the following challenges: »Healthy Business: Keep the entrepreneur and its employees vital »Smart Shopping: Help Hague stores to make the move to online »Secure Online: Protect businesses against cybercrime »Green: Stimulate consumers to buy more plants and flowers

Healthcare techies! Everyone with a passion for software engineering, UX/UI and data science! Come and collaborate at Hack for Healthcare. Can technology and data science improve the healthcare experience? Collaborate on creating solutions that answer questions such as: »Can we make healthcare more affordable? »Can we make it safer and less error prone? »Can we make it more accessible to everyone?

Student and public innovators! Participate in UHack -- Tasmania's innovation hackathon. Participate in a team, and work over a weekend to develop a software application, a business model and a pitch video, which are presented at the end to the UHack panel of judges. What you develop is up to you – just identify an opportunity or solve a problem or need that aligns with the University's research themes: --> Environment, Resources and Sustainability --> Creativity, Culture and Society --> Better Health --> Marine, Antarctic and Maritime --> Data, Knowledge and Decisions