List of hackathons about bigdata in 2017

Lawyers, paralegals, company executives, entrepreneurs, designers, coders, and data analysts in and around Toronto! You're invited to participate in Toronto's Legal Tech Hackathon. You'll collaborate on a team to design and prototype a software solution to a challenge related to the legal industry. Your solution will help law firms and in-house legal departments better manage their firms. You will select your challenge from the one of the following: 1.Develop a multiple voice to text solution for transcripts. 2.Develop an AI platform to streamline review of legal documents. 3.Develop a platform to monitor progress on a file assigned to lawyers. 4.Wildcard: Your own idea to solve a problem faced by the legal industry.

Think there's intelligent life out there? Want to help the SETI Institute in their search for find E.T. radio communications? You're invited to sign up to participate in the SETI Institute Hackathon. This event is focused on the use of machine learning to aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. You'll be challenged to use machine learning techniques to design and prototype an innovative signal classification algorithm that will be used in the data analysis pipeline at SETI's telescope array.

Female techies in the Netherlands! Caesar Experts invites you to sign up to participate in the Kart hackathon - Women in IT. Come and collaborate with like-minded women in IT. Create innovative solutions around leading edge technologies like the Internet of Things, Big Data, Hololens, and more.

PhD students and freshwater scientists in the Oxford area! If you're interested in citizen science, then Earthwatch Institute invites you to participate in a research hackathon to be held at Oxford Brookes University. You'll collaborate with other participants to hack FreshWater Watch's citizen science-generated dataset on water quality in rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and wetlands. You'll work in a small team to explore a given research issue and use the FreshWater Watch dataset in conjunction with other accessible datasets in order to identify opportunities for freshwater ecology.

Dutch hackers! Red Cross Netherlands invites yo to participate in the Data4Food hackathon. You'll be challenged to work one of the following data analysis and data visualization problems: »Data analysis: Higher resolution estimates »Data visualisation: Manager Decision-making tool.

Developers, UX designers, data scientists, statisticians and other tech pros! Carrefour invites you to sign up to participate in Tech2Grow. You'll face one of two challenges: -- Create a marketplace that helps local producers market their products, as well as showcase and manage their stocks. -- Create ways to anticipate the needs of consumers as they display interest in the Carrefour brand!

Enterprise developers, entrepreneurs, product designers, data scientists! The TM Forum invites you to participate in the TM Forum {Open} Hack in Nice. You'll be challenged to develop innovative new products and services built on top of TM Forum's Open APIs. Networking and collaborating with like-minded digital business enthusiasts, you can attack one of three {Open} Hack challenges: » IoE/Smart City » Digital Payments » 5G Virtualization Services

Developers, designers, open data techies! Interested in how open data can make railway travel in Germany better? You're invited to sign up and participate in the DB Open Data Hackathon. You'll be challenged to help shape the future of the railway with digital technology. You'll be introduced to open data APIs and data sets provided by Deutsche Bahn and use them to design and develop working prototypes with a 24-hour period. Collaborate and compete to win prizes for your app prototypes using data from the DB APIs.

Students in and around Sydney, Australia! You're invited to participate in the Macquarie Data Science Student Challenge 2017. You'll be challenged to harness the power of data analytics, build your skills, meet other top students, and have fun and learn.

Designers, developers, data journalists, citizens in South Tyrol! IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige invites you to participate in the Open Data Hackathon 2017 - Spring Edition. You'll be challenged to use open data to make the South Tyrol region more innovative and sustainable! You'll have 24 hours over 2 days to design and build your project and present it to a jury of open data and technology experts. Compete with your peers for great prizes in five different categories.