List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Expert programmers! Want to showcase your skills to world-leading companies and research institutes? Want to delve into the world's largest materials science database? Great! The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory invites you to apply to participate in a 48-hour NOMAD Analytics Hackathon in Berlin. You'll be collaborating and competing with the best-of-the-best to create innovative big-data analytics and web-based tools for materials science and engineering. Be aware! Only the best and brightest will be selected to participate.

Are you interested in happiness? Digital Catapult invites technical professionals from disciplines such as machine learning, data science, design and software engineering to participate in the Hacking Happiness hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype innovative solutions that address happiness. You have a choice of challenges on measuring, understanding, predicting and increasing happiness: 1.Quantified happiness: Using personal, geographic, social and environmental data sets. 2.Augmented happiness: Using wearables or sensors. 3.Interactive happiness: Using novel human-AI collaborations and interactions.