List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs...are you planning to participate in Unearthed Denver 2017 -- the 54-hour open innovation Hackathon featuring real challenges and data from the resources sector? If so, then you should plan to attend this information session, where you can from your team, ask questions, and get a head start on the Hackathon challenges.

Techie students and graduates in Nantes! IMIE Nantes invites you to participate in an Open Data & Culture Hackathon during the Nantes Digital Week - #NDW17. Your challenge will be to imagine and develop an innovative solution that delivers on the promise of open data in the cultural field.

Networkers and hackers in Cambridgeshire! Cambridge Ahead invites you to sign up to participate in the #CambsNotspotter Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ways to help improve mobile connectivity in and around the county. You'll get access to the millions of mobile data points collected through Cambridge Ahead's #CambsNotspotter campaign.

Fintech data techies and coders in the Milton Keynes area! Xbean Consultants invites you to participate in their Fintech event UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER BETTER, A HACKATHON. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ideas on how to understand customers better. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype approaches that can leverage data to increase customer understanding.

High school students, college students, and IT professionals in Massachusetts and throughout New England! Are you interested in technology and the sea? You're invited to participate in Hack for the Sea 2017. This year's theme is Longevity and Sustainability in Volatile Times. You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative way to make maritime systems and data more sustainable and resilient! Come up with a great idea and compete for prizes.

Open data hackers in South Africa! Do you want to #hackforhumanity? The UNISA School of Computing invites you to participate in RHoK Pretoria 2017 #rhokpta. This event --Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK) -- is intended to help promote socially-relevant computing in South Africa and around the world. Sign up for this two-day Hackathon and use open source technologies to come up with awesome software that can help address the challenge of how to use Open Data to enhance access to education and accelerate academic excellence.

Elsevier Hacks ‘17 is happening! The 48-hour hackathon will take place in Helsinki, Finland over the weekend of August 25th - 27th. Elsevier has tasked participants with identifying today’s challenges in medical education, and developing innovative mobile or web solutions to solve them. First place winners will receive $6000 in cash + $250 in tech. Second place winners will receive $500 in tech. Awesome goodies and spot prizes guarantees everyone will go home with some of 2017’s coolest gadgets! Medical students from around the globe, currently enrolled in University, are invited to register to participate. Students, whose applications are selected by Elsevier, will be offered travel and accommodation provisions for the trip. Finnish developers and designers are also invited to register. Each team will need their coding and design expertise to build great prototypes.

UK hackers! If you're interested in political data or have experience in visualising or building tools to work with data, then mySociety & Wikimedia UK invite you to participate in the Wikifying Westminster Workshop. You'll get to learn what you can do with Wikidata -- using UK political data as a starting point -- and then collaborate with other attendees to build an application, or do some analysis, or just experiment! To conclude the workshop, you'll get to participate in a hackathon, and showcase your skills in visualising and improving the data from Wikidata.

GIS hackers in and around Austin, Texas! Blue Compass, LLC invites you to participate in the #ExpeditionHacks Hackathon Series: Austin 2017. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype an innovative solution that uses GIS, imagery, and other big data sources to help improve our everyday life in Austin and around the world! Your solution could be about indicators of social unrest, improved planning and risk management of large sporting events, automatic tools that help humans analyze large data sets, or whatever your imagination conjures up.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and industry insiders! If you plan to participate in Unearthed - Buenos Aires, Argentina, then mark your calendar for the presentation of the hackathon challenges for Buenos Aires. At the 54-hour open innovation Hackathon, you will collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop prototype technology solutions to resource challenges. You'll have the unique opportunity to work on real industry data as well as data from government partners.