List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Come along to the Open Data Day Albany/Troy. 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.

Coders and open data techies on Prince Edward Island! You're invited to sign up to participate in the annual Hackathon hosted by PEI Developers and the Open Data Book Club. You don't have to be a super techie to participate -- you'll be teamed with other who have the skills. Come and help build out an open data app.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? If you're planning to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon, then consider attending the pre-hackathon workshop (presented in Cantonese) on using the Python language to retrieve and extract data from raw HTML pages. You'll be prepared for the hackathon where you'll be able to showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.

Developers, designers, travel industry techies in and around Hong Kong? Are you planning to participate in the upcoming Hack Horizon TravelTech hackathon? If so, you're invited to attend TravelTech Tuesday #8. In addition to panel discussion of whether Hong Kong will become the next TravelTech hub, you'll hear what you'll need to learn about Hack Horizon, the first TravelTech hackathon on the plane. You'll be walked through the essentials of the application process and have the opportunity to get all of your burning questions answered.

Healthcare technical professionals, students, entrepreneurs! by Macquarie Park Innovation District (MPID) and National Australia Bank (NAB) invite you to participate in the MPID Healthcare Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use NAB’s data-sets and APIs to design and build a digital solution that helps support, empower and provide insights to healthcare consumers and organizations.

UX and UI designers, product designers, developers, user researchers! Want to help make New York City an better place to be? Beginex invites you to sign up to participate in the NYC OpenRecords UX Hackathon! You'll be challenged to analyze the current New York City OpenRecords portal and prepare sketches, wire-frames and prototypes for an improved user experience that you will present to a panel of judges.

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.

Coders and developers in and around Bangalore. Securonix, the market leader in User Behavior Analytics, invites you to sign up to participate in a Hiring Hackathon. If you're interested in showcasing your big data skills and looking for your next career move, then this event is for you! You'll get the chance to demonstrate your expertise in Java and Hadoop development and compete for a job offer at Securonix.

Students, engineers, developers, programmers, scientists! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Big Data Hackathon, San Diego. You'll be challenged to design and build an app, platform, and/or technology that uses the provided datasets to deliver a compelling public health solution.

Data hackers in the greater Boston area! MIT invites you to sign up to participate in the DataRescue @ MIT hackathon. You'll be challenged to identify, download, process, and mirror federal research data that is at risk of being taken down or obscured by the current administration. Your level of technical background does not matter . Everyone's welcome to help with tasks including browsing websites to identify data sets, building scripts to scrape data, verifying data integrity, and loading the rescued data to mirrors.