Yelp Hackathon Online Build the next generation of local apps with the Yelp API $8,500 in prizes Winners announced 714 participants
LAUNCH Hackathon 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA Launch 2016 here: launch.devpost.com/ $101,500 in prizes Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2015 1311 participants
HackEbola (with Data!) Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Humanitarian organizations have been collecting data in West Africa; they need data scientists to search for patterns about the spread of the Ebola epidemic. HackEbola addresses this important need. Non-monetary prizes Nov 21 – 29, 2014 173 participants
Bayes Impact Hackathon San Francisco, CA, USA Use Data Science to Solve Big Social Problems Non-monetary prizes Nov 15 – 16, 2014 130 participants
Hacking EAST - APIs for ART Austin, TX, USA The goal of this hackathon is to create a mobile app that helps local artists list their works, and people more effectively share the works with their network of art-appreciating friends and family. $5,610 in prizes Feb 15 – Mar 2, 2014 43 participants
NYC BigApps 3.0 Online New York City challenged software developers to create apps that use city data to make NYC better. $50,000 in prizes Winners announced 633 participants