List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Hackers and coders! Are you planning to attend the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 conference? You're invited to sign up for the hackathon that will be run in conjunction with the conference. You'll be challenged top create your own new and innovative approach to how individuals in the digital age can best analyze, visualize, and use the enormous amount and wide variety of personal data that we create.

Data scientists, programmers, technologists, activists, analysts, policy makers — in fact anyone and everyone who is interested in air quality! ODI Leeds invites you to participate in #AirHack, a 2-day event working with the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to explore air quality — the problems, the data, the solutions. You don't need to be an expert on data or digital technology — you just need to be interested in how Defra datasets might be used for the civic good.

Hackers and coders! Are you planning to attend the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 conference? You're invited to sign up for the hackathon that will be run following the conference. In the hackathon, you'll be challenged to create your own new and innovative approach to how individuals in the digital age can best analyze, visualize, and use the enormous amount and wide variety of personal data that they create.

Hackers in and around Berlin! Interested in anonymized data and how it can be used in healthcare? Clue and WATTx invite you to participate in their first data hackathon. You'll be challenged to help make sense of one of the largest sets of anonymized personal healthcare data. You'll use data that has been anonymised using WATTx's proprietary platform. Meet with leading data scientists and compete for prizes.

Open data enthusiasts in and around Nashville, TN! Code for Nashville invites you to sign up to participate in the Public Health Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use the web-based Mappler interactive mapping tool to mine and display the open data published by Metro Nashville in order to create compelling stories and tools for use by the administrators and citizens ot the metropolitan Nashville area.

Students and young professionals in New Brunswick, Canada! Interested in open data or blockchain technologies? The University of New Brunswick EIS and IEEE societies invite you to sign up to participate in the Slingshot Hackathon. This event is focused on the themes of Open Data and Blockchain technology. You'll be challenged to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team to tackle challenges surrounding one or both of these themes.

Open data enthusiasts in and around Nashville, TN! In preparation for the upcoming Public Health Hackathon, Code for Nashville invites you to sign up for a training workshop on the use of Mappler, a web-based interface that allows you to visually display information by using interactive mapping. Mappler will be the primary tool to be used in the hackathon, so you'll familiarized with using it. You will also be introduced to the open data sets for the metropolitan Nashvill area.

Science and healthcare hackers in Finland! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Science Hackathon: Changing Lifestyles. Too many lives are lost each year to lifestyle diseases such as adult diabetes. There's lots of information out there to help people change their lifestyles to avoid the diseases. Your challenge at the hackathon will be to collaborate to use AI and search tools to map the most effective methods to help people change their lifestyles.

Fintech startups are rapidly changing the financial industry landscape by embracing state-of-the-art technologies, attracting new customers and expanding their businesses into newer territories. Today, Credit Unions face increased pressure to reduce costs and drive stickier, more profitable relationships with their members. Come and collaborate with attendees from leading credit unions across the nation and share ideas on how to augment traditional business intelligence with a modern data platform that enables agile decision making. NOTE: Location to be finalized.

Developers and designers from all over Europe! IT One invites you to sign up to participate in the Game of Code event in Luxembourg. Come with your team or form one at the event! You'll have the opportunity to network with 200 peers and compete in one of the following challenges: »Distorted Reality: a totally open challenge -- create a VR/AR or storytelling experience »Open Data Challenge: create a new, smart app that helps improve the quality of life in Luxembourg