List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Interested in how corporations abuse the public's data? How could our online footprint be used against us? Do you want people to understand what data corporations collect and how to champion privacy? Jonathan Yeo and Near Future Society invite you to participate in a 36-hour event at Jonathan Yeo's studio, where teams will create an interactive experience of the most dystopian and utopian use of social media, facial recognition, facial tracking and data mining.

Health professionals, patients, developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you motivated to change the world of health! Come participate in the Health Innovation Marathon - HACKING HEALTH QUÉBEC - 2017. This hackathon is intended to help bring IT and healthcare professionals together to conceive & design an app, a device, or other solution for patient-centric care.

Techies in Singapore! If you're interested in becoming a data scientist, then Code for Asia invites you to participate in CodeCircles @BLOCK71 Singapore. You'll get to meet like-minded individuals and get an in-depth intro to the subject, acquire programming basics and start building real projects that you can showcase. The multi-week event culminates in a Data Hackathon and career talk.

Techies in Singapore! If you're interested in becoming a data scientist, then Code for Asia invites you to participate in CodeCircles @BLOCK71 Singapore. You'll get to meet like-minded individuals and get an in-depth intro to the subject, acquire programming basics and start building real projects that you can showcase. The multi-week event culminates in a Data Hackathon and career talk.

Big data architects, developers, and techies in and around Brisbane! CloudTrek invites you to participate in the Big Data, Big Heart Hackathon. You'll team with like-minded big data and automation enthusiasts to use AWS cloud-based technology to create an awesome solution to a given big data challenge for our global village.

Danish hackers! Interested data-driven innovation in the food industry? InfinIT and Hack & CO invite you to register to participate in the Hacking Food hackathon. You'll be presented with food industry challenges, such as how to build services that can change people’s eating habits, how can urban gardening make communities self-sufficient, and how can we reduce food waste? You'll collaborate on a team to address the challenges using food industry data about production, distribution, hygiene, nutrition, waste, consumption, delivery to public institutions, etc.

Coders and hackers in Romania! DevTalks Romania invites you to participate in the DevHacks 2017 Hackathon. You'll have 24 hours to build something useful addressing one of the following categories: Women in Technology, Video & Audio Hack, Web, Mobile, Big Data, AI & IoT & Robotics, Security, and DevOps. You'll work in a team and one of your team must learn a new language at the event.

Interested in Data Vizualization? Interested in Tableau? In and around the Midlands? The Midlands Tableau User Group invites you to attend their upcoming meeting and to participate in a hackathon. You'll get the opportunity to network with fellow Tableau users, share experiences, and take part in the data viz hackathon.

Techies in the Washington DC area? Do you want to be a digital volunteer and help FEMA with their disaster response and recovery efforts? You're invited to participate in the Disaster Crowdsourcing Exchange -- FEMA's Disaster Hackathon. You'll learn about FEMA's current crowdsourcing coordination efforts, participate in building new projects, experiment with new tools, and shape the future of crowdsourcing in emergency management. Projects include: Operationalize Crowdsourcing for Emergency Management, Crowdsourcing Analysis of Imagery, Prototype Tools for Field Data Collection, and Open Street Map (OSM) Mapathon.

Are you planning to participate in the Big Data, Big Heart Hackathon? If so, you're invited to come along to the event Ideation evening. Form your team, register and hear directly from the challenge providers - Diabetes Queensland, Epilepsy Queensland, and Life Flight.