List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Interested in good policing? Come and participate in a day-long hackathon and explore data science models and D3 visualizations to help the efforts of the Citizens Police Data Project. You'll be helping to support a national model of transparency and accountability for police actions. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals on a project in one of three broad areas: »Data Visualization: Using d3, Gephi, and any other visualization tools, create a compelling and informative story. »Data Science: Create a propagation model to understand the impact of reassigning police officers. »Data Engineering: Add functionality to ResponseBot, CPDP's chatbot.

So you're not a coder? Here's a hackathon for you! ProtoHack exists to show non-coders that they can create something amazing from nothing. Sign up today for this code-free event. Instead, you will use the best tools for non-coders—prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes—to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage. ProtoHack will be a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually.

Python hackers! Come and show your stuff at Python Hackathon #hackyourstart! Participation in the hackathon is open to beginners, but you must be able to handle at least basic structure: »Use basic built-in functions »Knowledge of data types and variables »Access through index & string slicing »If-elif-else conditions If you're not sure, you can assess your level of knowledge on this test: repl.it/DZzP

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Santiago, Chile! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: »Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. »Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work. »Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. »Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

Interested in artificial intelligence to capture and process real-time data? Come and participate in the Data Mining Hackathon that will be held in conjunction with the Barcamp Dortmund. Collaborate with like-minded hackers! Use the goedle.io Machine Learning API to build an app that has the intelligence to collect and process user data and make predictions about user behaviour. Answers to commonly-asked hackathon questions can be found on the tips page!

Civic tech enthusiasts, data scientists, analysts, students in and around New York City! Want to play with new data to find insights that could help New York City? Sign up to participate in the NYC Connected Broadband Data Dig. Help by analyzing available data and providing recommended approaches to: »What public data the City should use to inform policy-making, »What factors impact levels of broadband availability or broadband adoption, »What City assets can be used to address broadband inequities.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Boston! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Search the expert hackathon tips page for answers to your questions on the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Boston!

Brunei coders and hackers! The Google Developers Group (GDG) invites you to participate in the GDG Brunei DevFest 2016. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to exchange ideas, learn new stuff and use your creativity and technical skills to create innovative technology solutions in challenge areas such as: »Government: Rating Services »Social: Petrol Stations, Road Closures and Money Changers (Opening Hours and Venues) »Environment: Open burning, plastics »Creative: Application of IoT »Education: Personal Finance Management »Culture: Customer services, Understanding Brunei culture

Ohio State graduate and undergrad students! Come and participate in HackOHI/O, OSU's largest hackathon. Spend a weekend with over 700 like-minded techies building and creating real projects. Meet great people from OSU and developers, designers, and marketers from leading sponsoring tech companies. Build something awesome and collaborate with some cool people!

Interested in mobile ecommerce? Come and sign up for MobileHackGeneva! Collaborate and compete with some of the best entrepreneurs in Geneva to create innovative solutions that will help change the future of mobile e-commerce. You'll have the opportunity to create your e-commerce solution from scratch and then kick-start your company, taking advantage of 6 months of free office space and mentoring.