List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Join Los Angeles city officials as they discuss the new initiatives to grow the tech and entrepreneurial scene implemented by recently elected mayor and long time Silicon Beach supporter Eric Garcetti. already mayor Garcetti has created many new positions to encourage innovation within the local government, opened city data to public use, and is in the process of updating city websites, speaking at many startup focused events, and he has much more planned!

#Hackthehouse is the first hackathon of its type, bringing together the residents of Montreal to take on some of the biggest challenges faced by the community. If you have experience in real estate and building construction, join with your peers in order to develop solutions and create a smarter and more manageable infrastructure.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and industry insiders! Participate in the 54-hour open innovation Unearthed Hackathon to develop prototype technology solutions to resource challenges. Participants will have the unique opportunity to work on real industry data as well as data from government partners. Unearthed Sydney will feature Big Data related challenges with large operational, maintenance, productivity and geological data sets.

Think of yourself as a maker? Come participate in the MaxQ Challenge—a space-themed maker hackathon. This event brings together developers, designers, engineers, scientists, creators, and other makers to explore the modern world of space data and hardware. You'll get o choose to collaborate on one of the following challenges: »Open Space Data: You’re living on a changing planet, monitored by orbiting spectrometers. You’ve been granted early access to an index of datasets from 5 emissions satellites; AIRS (NASA JPL), GOSAT (JAXA), MOPITT (NASA EOS), OCO-2 (NASA JPL), and TES (NASA JPL). Locate specific sources of greenhouse gasses, identify changes over time or create impactful visualizations. »Physical Prototyping: Design a biofilter that can be packed flat and assembled in orbit, research and propose a culture to treat gray water and gas loaded with ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, or build a purification system to remove enough suspended particles that ultraviolet germicidal irradiation of the output is effective. »Ingenious Creations: You're the boss. Invent an ingenious space-related concept and wow the room with your ability to both identify real-world problems and solve them.

Cyber Traders Sydney has teamed up with Quantopian to put on a hackathon to remember! The focus of the hackathon will be how the public opinion of news articles affects the price of a companies stock. Trading experts will be walking around the hackathon to assist hackers in manipulating the data sets provided by Quantopian as they compete to see who can create the most profitable algorithm. The cost of entry is $50 day of or $40 if you buy your ticket in advance. Hacking time is from 10AM-6PM, catered lunch will be provided.

Are you ready to accept the challenge of NGA's Expedition: Hackathon? There are mountains of data collected on everything -- from day-to-day activities such as pulling directions to the grocery store, to specialized data for first responders attending a disaster zone. Much of this data sits unused! The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking for the best data explorers and developer storytellers in the US to find stories lying in these disparate databases. Using the heaping piles of data made available at the hackathon, your challenge is to develop your next generation geospatial story that educates and demonstrates data exploration at its finest!

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the first U-HAC : Unionbank Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create projects that have potential to improve people’s lives -- maybe new and cool apps suited for millenials. Or maybe take a corporate approach and build a fintech project that will help consumers and institutional customers? Be creative...games, virtual reality, IoT projects, robotics, or whatever wild and wonderful idea springs to mind!

Sign up for Big Data & Hadoop certification training. You'll get live instructor training and hands-on experience on industry specific projects. This course is designed to guarantee project experience and hands-on practical knowledge of working with Hadoop. You can select from the following projects to work on: →Data Analysis on Medicare Data (Healthcare Sector) →Perform Call-Drop Analysis (Telecom Sector) →Identifying Mortgage Defaulters (Finance Sector) →Real-Time Twitter Data Acquisition (Product Development/Marketing Sector).

Aspiring and established coders! Sign up today to participate in the 2nd annual Qantas Codeshare Hackathon. Collaborate to create apps, products and solutions that improve the lives of all travellers. You'll have access to publicly available fare information, a feed of available hotels for a particular destination on hooroo.com and more, to come up with awesome solutions to travelling problems.

Come to first ever Hackathon around MISP--the advanced platform for sharing, storing and correlating indicators of compromise (IoC) and cyber security threats! Get beneath the covers of MISP--API, docs, etc.--to store, share, collaborate on malware, and also to use the IOCs to detect and prevent attacks.