List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Come participate at Hack N Akron 2.0 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 → Create neighborhood branding → Create a means of promoting Akron Community Learning Centers to citizens.

Internet of Things enthusiasts in Indiana! Think you've got a great idea to help energize the State's economy? AT&T Developer Program invites you to participate in the AT&T IoT Civic Hackathon - Indianapolis. You'll be challenged to design and build an innovative mobile app or hardware solution that will help better the community and State.

Hackers in Manila? Are you planning to participate in the Space Apps Challenge 2017? You're invited to come and attend the Space Apps Pre-event Meetup in Manila. You'll be given an introduction to the five challenge areas of the Space Apps Challenge 2017, so you'll be prepared to explore possible projects for the Challenge itself and decide what next generation space technology solution you'll build.

Start-up techies in the greater London area! Are you interested in smart, sustainable cities? If you're planning to attend the Smarter Cities NOW forum, why not decide to participate in the Smarter CitiesNOW Solution Challenge and City of London Hackathon, which will be kicked off at the forum. This will be your chance to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive, design and build data-driven apps for the City of London.

Hackers in the Czech Republic! Interested in the Internet of Things (IoT) or Data Analytics? At&T Developer Program invites you to sign up to participate in the 2017 V4 HACKATHON. You'll get to collaborate and compete for great prizes, as you design and prototype an innovative IoT and data analytics project under one of the following categories: »Smart Cities: Help cities use technology to better serve their citizens. »Healthcare: Allow physicians, medical administrators, or home providers to improve patient care experiences. »Sustainability: Automate efforts that enable meaningful social and environmental benefits. »Home: Create home automation solutions for security, child or senior safety, or real-time monitoring. »Open Data: Use open data to better serve Czech citizens.

Are you planning to attend ZUSEexpo 2017? If so, then Link-ProjeX invites you to sign up to participate in their Hackathon at the ZUSEexpo 2017. You'll get to collaborate with other participants in a team on a project formulated by one of the participating companies. Projects include: »Create a live ticker, showing trends and options in the tech area. »Develop an app in Unity3D that allows 2D drawings using a VR headset. »Create a 3D model in Unity3D from a given floor plan as 2D pixel graphics. »Create a prototype for a team building tool.

Data for Democracy invites anyone who is interested in using data for positive social impact to sign up for the Data for Democracy Hackathon - Austin. Collaborate on a project that uses data to drive better decisions and improve the world we live in. Come and work on projects like: »Drug Spending - Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward. »Election Transparency - Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community. »Refugees - involves classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events to track internal refugee crises across the globe. »ProPublica - projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, ProPublica. »USA Dashboard - A dashboard of key metrics for the USA, starting with city-level crime data. »Immigration Connect - Collecting, analyzing, and modeling data related to immigration.

Data for Democracy invites anyone who is interested in using data for positive social impact to sign up for the Data for Democracy Hackathon - New York. Collaborate on a project that uses data to drive better decisions and improve the world we live in. Come and work on projects like: »Drug Spending - Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward. »Election Transparency - Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community. »Refugees - involves classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events in an attempt to track internal refugee crises across the globe. »ProPublica - projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, ProPublica. »USA Dashboard - A dashboard of key metrics for the USA, starting with city-level crime data. »Immigration Connect - Collecting, analyzing, and modeling data related to immigration.

Student hackers the Austin, Texas area -- and beyond! Vast invites you to sign up to participate in their Hackathon: Vast Hackahire Compete for Paid Internships. You'll get the chance to showcase your skills in building the next big auto analytic widget for the CarStory app. Compete for prizes and the opportunity for a paid summer internship at Vast.

Data for Democracy - Seattle invites anyone who is interested in using data for positive social impact to sign up for the Data for Democracy Hackathon - Seattle. Collaborate on a project that uses data to drive better decisions and improve the world we live in. Come and work on projects like: »Drug Spending - Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward. »Election Transparency - Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community. »Refugees - involves classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events to track internal refugee crises across the globe. »ProPublica - projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, ProPublica. »USA Dashboard - A dashboard of key metrics for the USA, starting with city-level crime data. »Immigration Connect - Collecting, analyzing, and modeling data related to immigration.