The DataWeek Hackathon runs Saturday 28th till Sunday 29th

DataWeek 2013 Conference + Festival is the second-annual 6-day data-centric event in downtown San Francisco. Our team's goal is to organize the largest data-centric event in the nation and exceed the 1,500 city-wide festival attendees who participated in DataWeek 2012!

We organize the entrepreneurs, companies, technologies, experts, media, investors, developers, and executives across Big Data, Social Data, Cloud Data, API Infrastructure, Hadoop, Twitter Data, NoSQL Technologies, Platform-asa-Service, Advertising and Targeting Data.

Get free $300 in Rackspace Cloud credit for your project at http://developers.rackspace.com/

 

 

Eligibility

Teams are strictly limited to five (5) members, but can have as few as one (1) member.   So that team membership is limited to members who actually contribute, team members can, by a 2/3 majority vote, elect to remove a non-participating team member from their team by Sunday, Sept. 29, at 3:00 PM by contacting Brandon on the DataWeek team ([email protected]). 

Requirements

TBC

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$11,100 in prizes
Grand Prize worth
1 winner

1) GreenQloud credit of $2,000.00 towards GreenQloud services (ComputeQloud, StorageQloud / QloudSync). Not exchangeable for cash. Non-transferrable.

2) Chartio account free for six months

3) Opportunity to present what you have have built on stage at the Disqus summit on Thursday.

More coming soon

GreenQloud API Prize worth
1 winner

A team trip to Iceland (up to 2 people which would include round trip economy flight from Continental Europe, Canada, Continental US or the Nordics. Plus 3 nights hotel. Travel to be booked and completed for dates between January 2014- June 2014.

Prize goes to the team that best utilizes the GreenQloud API. Tech Documentation coming soon.

AccountingSuite API Scholarship cash
1 winner

AccoutingSuite API is all about creating a connection between a user and the various avenues in which their business is done. What we’d like to see is a functional and effective integration which might benefit the average AccountingSuite user. For example, our API is commonly used for reporting, BI, and E-commerce; however, extra points will be considered for the more creative endeavors.

AccountingSuite API can be found here: developer.accountingsuite.com

Chartio API Nerf Surprise worth
1 winner

Chartio free account for six months + A special Nerf surprise!

UPDATE:
There is no need to use forjar, the prize will go to the team that creates the best/most unique dashboard using the chartio platform.

At Chartio we created a data generator called Forjar. Forjar allows us to mock up schemas and describe how the data should behave over time. You can then run it to generate large amounts of fake data, based on the schema specifications. So far, as examples, we've cloned AirBnB, Zendesk, and Pinterest's schemas. We invite hackers to work on Forjar to help clone schemas, make it more polished and prepare it to be properly open sourced. Dave Fowler, founder of Chartio, will discuss this more in depth at the hackathon.

Pearson API Scholarships cash
2 winners

Pearson is offering (2) $500 scholarships to teams that are looking to build innovative applications using Pearson APIs. We are looking for teams that have a big vision but can also execute on their application during the short hackathon.

We are also offering a $250 prize in Amazon gift cards to the team that best utilizes a Pearson API. This may or may not be awarded to a scholarship winner.

Pearson APIs are content APIs. If you are creating a web or mobile application and looking for content related to education, travel, food, literature, images or dictionaries check out our APIs. Simply sign up for a free account which will give you access to an API Key. You will then be able to integrate our content into your application. Visit developer.pearson.com for more information or reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

AT&T API Challenge cash
1 winner

AT&T Developer Program gives you access to the tools you need to build, test, onboard and certify applications across a range of devices, OS’s and platforms.
Browse the getting started guide to quickly get access to AT&T flagship APIs like Speech, Advertising and Messaging. Refer sample code, demos and tutorials to discover how these APIs can be integrated into your app. AT&T also offers API SDKs for platforms like Unity®, Appcelerator® Titanium®, Adobe® PhoneGap® etc. which simplifies the API integration from within a development environment. Become a free member of the AT&T Developer Program to use all APIs in our sandbox environment free for 90 days. You can also register up to three new apps for testing and get started quickly with our default application, pre-built with app key, secret, and short code.

Dun & Bradstreet API Scholarship cash
2 winners

D&B will award $500 to (2) developer teams that propose the best application of the D&B API in the sales, marketing, web, mobile, or supply chain use cases. Possible ideas could be data mashups with stock prices, trending news, or business reviews. D&B Direct is an API web services platform which enables easy integration of D&B’s world-leading database of over 210M companies, 100M contacts, financial information, company profiles, Hoover’s industry research and more, and combines it with external data like social media and news, to deliver real-time intelligence into any application, such as CRM systems, corporate intranets and webforms, and supply chain management systems. D&B Direct API Examples of use cases built with the D&B Direct API can be found at: http://developer.dnb.com/service-examples/16675726-1.html, and we encourage any of your application ideas. You may register at and our API is free for trial: http://dnbdirect.dnb.com/member/register. For more information, please visit: developer.dnb.com. We look forward to seeing your ideas! Best of luck!

Disqus API Challenge worth
1 winner

The Disqus API is a huge, valuable resource that has been largely untapped - until now. With over 1 million comments posted daily across thousands of active communities, you're bound to find something interesting. The average Disqus user is commenting about their passions spanning multiple sites. Use this data to build interesting projects that go beyond superficial social data. You'll learn about how the discussion data is bucketed and connected between communities, discussions and users, and how to navigate this network via the public API. Take advantage of contextual conversations to build smarter applications faster.

The winning team will receive a Raspberry Pi starter-kit.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

It is required that your team register (click on "Enter an Application") on ChallengePost (http://dataweekhack.challengepost.com/) by Sunday, Sept. 29, at 3:00 PM, so that we can circulate our itinerary of team pitches.  

Judges

Richard Kerby

Richard Kerby
Senior Associate / Venrock

Greg Lindahl

Greg Lindahl
CTO / blekko

Dave Fowler

Dave Fowler
Founder & CEO / Chartio

Sunil Pai

Sunil Pai
Investment Professional / Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Johann Romefort

Johann Romefort
Founder / Popcards

Simone Brunozzi

Simone Brunozzi
Senior Technology Evangelist / Amazon Web Services

Adam D'Augelli

Adam D'Augelli
Senior Associate / True Ventures

Blair Silverberg

Blair Silverberg
Investor / Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Montana Flynn

Montana Flynn
Growth Hacker / Mashape

Judging Criteria

  • Quality of presentation and communication
  • Progress of the app, especially as it relates to using data/APIs in interesting/unique ways.
  • Feasibility as a startup company -- with a clear customer and a clear business model.

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