Great Prizes

Compete to turn data into a MacBook Air!

Second Prize: Nexus 10

Introducing {data}

1 day hackathon hosted by Waterloo startup: Sortable

Who

If you are a developer in Kitchener-Waterloo interested in big data, join the Sortable crew for an awesome day of hacking. Food and prizes will be provided.

When

Saturday Feb 2, 2013
9am – 6pm

Where

{data} will be hosted at Sortable’s office in Waterloo. Located on the fourth floor of the Bauer Building at 150 Caroline Street above Vincenzo’s and the Bauer Kitchen.

The Details

Work in small teams to do something new and exciting with data from the web

Form Teams

We encourage people to form teams with others on the day of the event, this is a great way to meet other local developers! If you don’t have a team we can help you find some teammates, or you can work solo.

Get Ideas

The goal of the hackathon is to do something new with existing data, this could include social data, government data or scraped data (within fair use). Be creative and think outside the box.

Have Fun

Meet new people who like to hack on big data sets, learn new techniques for scraping, cleaning, and mashing data & new data sets you might never have heard of!