List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Student and professional hackers! Interested in Smart City solutions? Creative Valley invites you to participate in the Citizens of Wallonia hackathon to propose ideas to make smarter cities in Wallonia! You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to imagine solutions that will make the cities in Wallonia more connected, greener, and more sustainable. You'll be challenged to create Open Data solutions that will encourage citizen interaction, urban and rural mobility, and increased employment.

Hobbyists, IT students, designers, IT professionals and laymen in and around the city of Gent! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Datadive Apps For Ghent hackathon. Come as part of a team or join a team at the event. You'll be challenged to use open data sets for both sports and health to build an innovative new app. Present your project to a jury and compete to win a prize.

Open data hackers in Morocco! ScreenDy & Open Source Days invite you to sign up to participate in the Hack & Pitch "Open Data" Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype innovative mobile apps that leverage open data. You will be able to use the ScreenDy Quick Development Platform (QDP) to bring your city-oriented application ideas to life.

Hackers and open data enthusiasts in the Greater Nashville area! Are you planning to participate in the upcoming Public Health Hackathon in Nashville? That's great! So you should plan to attend this pre-hackathon training workshop and learn how to use the web-based Mappler tool to develop an interactive map to visually display open data sets. You'll also be introduced to the open data sets for the Metro Nashville area.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Open Source Hong Kong invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon. You can help grow the open data community by working on projects such as open research data, protecting the environment with open data, and using open data to improve the lives of Hong Kong residents. Come and showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Come along to the Open Data Day Hackathon Chicago. You can help grow the open data community by working on projects such as open research data, tracking public money flows, protecting the environment with open data, and using open data to promote human rights. Come and showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data using software tools such as Python.

Open democracy techies in the greater Paris area! Open Democracy Now invites you to sign up to participate in the Hackathon Nuit du Code Citoyen (Paris). You'll be challenged to utilize your skills to improve the OGP toolbox -- expending it to support other cities and other themes, such as supporting new independent media.

Techies and just regular folks in the Stockport area! Are you interested in the use of technology to sift through a mass of data, comments, complaints. and enquiries about Stockport, in order to distill a cohesive view of what matters to its citizens? Do you have ideas on how to make it easier for residents of Stockport to connect with the things they care about? Stockport Council invites you to sign up to participate -- on your own or in a team -- in the Stockport Hackathon 2017. Collaborate and compete to use open data to improve Stockport's municipal government services, create new ones, and empower its residents.

Designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policymakers, students, communications strategists! Civic Tech Toronto invites you to sign up to participate in the CodeAcross Toronto 2017 hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like minded individuals to leverage open data sets to create innovative solutions to problems facing cities, non-profits and community groups. You'll get to address your choice of problem from a set that includes: »The Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) wants to create a tool to help job seekers better understand which degrees lead to which occupations and salaries. »The City of Toronto’s Transportation Big Data Innovation Team is looking for an interactive dashboard to tell the story of traffic speeds in Toronto. »The Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario is looking for a simple, easy to navigate platform that allows the parties (the landlord or tenant) to communicate with each other.

Developers, experts, students, data wranglers, data journalists, data enthusiasts, makers, artists! ECMWF invites you to participate in the #OpenDataHack to explore creative uses of open data. You'll be challenged to design and prototype innovative apps that leverage weather data. You can select one to the following challenges: »The "GET OUT" challenge -- using data to improve the day-to-day lives of everyone. »The "GET CREATIVE" challenge -- combining data to produce art or storytelling. »The "GET GEEKY" challenge -- using the data for something geeky »The "GET FUN" challenge -- hacking weather related objects in any way possible.