Spend a week hacking with the Major League Hacking (MLH) community at GHW: Data Week!
What is Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week takes place throughout the year to give you a chance to complete technical challenges, network with the community, enjoy fun live sessions, build technical projects, and make new memories.
We'll have challenges, live technical sessions with MLHers, mini-events galore, and some cool content from our partners! Here’s a sneak peek:
At each Global Hack Week, you can:
⭐ Watch live technical streams
⭐ Participate in skill-building workshops
⭐ Join us for fun activities
⭐ Enter and win swag in raffles
What is Data Week?
Each GHW features a new theme, and this January we're spending a week of 50+ events designed to empower yourself with data!
Who is GHW for?
Global Hack Week is for anyone ready to level-up their hacking skills. We welcome all programmers, designers, artists, and hackers from around the globe to join us for these events. Whether this is day 1 or day 1000 of your hacker journey, we want you to join us!
Can I get swag at this event?
Yes, of course! Each Global Hack Week will feature some amazing 2023 Hackathon Season swag…you’ll have to participate to find out exactly what you’re getting!
What is a Guild? How can I be a part of it?
One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. guilds are smaller communities within Major League Hacking. Whether you come in with a guild or not, you won’t be hacking alone.
Who organizes Global Hack Week?
Global Hack Week is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). It is our mission to empower hackers worldwide by providing them with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed.
Requirements
1) Your challenge submission must be completed within the submission period.
2) When relevant, your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
3) If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on before Global Hack Week.
Prizes
Complete the GitHub Copilot Primer
Wondering how to get started with Codespaces? This Primer makes it easy by giving you the templates, videos and step-by-step resources you need to get you started running, testing, debugging and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment.
Check out -> https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-github-copilot-primer
Creating the producer and consumer
If you're unfamiliar with building workflows using a message broker, consider this your 'Hello World' to high volume application process management!
Check out the Challenge 1 instructions on https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-LavinMQ to get started on building application architecture that uses data at scale.
Submit your code to our devpost page when you're done!
Creating queues, exchanges and bindings
Building your first LavinMQ powered application can be complex but rewarding. In this challenge 2, you'll learn how to customize your application using queues, exchanges, and bindings!
Checkout the challenge 2 tutorial on https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-LavinMQ for help with completing this step.
Submit your code to our devpost page when you're done!
Running three consumers
Running three consumers
You're one step away from having a fully functioning notification system for all of your application's data! Check out challenge 3 on the LavinMQ challenge page (https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-LavinMQ) for more detailed instructions and tutorials on how to get it done!
Submit your code to our devpost page when you're finished.
Explore Operational Property Graphs with Oracle Database 23ai
Learn the basics of SQL
Use SQL
Use SQL for relational tables and JSON documents in a single database. Check out (https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-oracle-challenge3) for more!
Data Grand Slam Challenge
Complete Oracle's Data Grand Slam Challenge: Hitting Home Runs with Insights. Check out (https://hackp.ac/ghwdata24-oracle-challenge4) for more!
Build a CRM
Create your own Customer Relationship Management platform with a low or no code tool of your choice.
Password Hashing
Create an application with authentication features that demonstrates password hashing.
Explore Data
Find a data set and load it into a programming envrioment and start to explore it!
CRUD Hack
Using a programming language and database of your choice, create an app that performs the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations.
Movie Database
Create a database in any way you'd like to store information about movies you've seen or want to see!
Time Series Analysis
Choose an open source time series dataset of your choice and model it. Apply techniques such as forecasting, trend analysis, or anomaly detection to extract meaningful information from the temporal data.
Build a Data Visualization
here are so many different ways to visualize data. It can be as simple as a graph or as complex as a piece of art. Show off your visualization on the Devpost when you’re finished.
Web Scraping App
Create a web-scrapping application that helps the community! Your project could scrape class data to help students plan their course schedule, look into grocery store prices to compile the best sales, or anything else that you can share with your community to help others out. Submit on our Devpost!
Use Weather Data
Create a project that uses weather data to do anything you’d like. Maybe you’ll suggest a commute based on the weather, predict future weather trends, or pick out the best days to plan a picnic on. There will be blue skies ahead if you submit on Devpost.
Sticker Database
As we all know, stickers are a big deal. Create a database to share the stickers you have earned or want to earn in the future! Stick with your project by sending it to us on our Devpost.
Use a Data API
There are tons of awesome (and free!) data APIs out there! Try out any that you'd like and share what you build on Devpost!
Sports Analyst Hack
Create a hack that analyzes a sport you enjoy. The sky's the limit here - you could have an AI watch and analyze footage, a database store scores, or any other analysis you think would be fun to implement. Submit your demo on the Devpost to score a touchdown.
Build with React
React is a popular way to build interactive UIs. Try using it or adding it to an existing project. If you want to see our reaction, submit it on the Devpost.
Use Enviornmental Data
We love going to hackathons and seeing projects to help the earth. Create any hack that will help us care for the environment better and uses enviornmental data and show it off on our Devpost.
Sentiment Analysis
Using Sentiment analysis can come in handy for many types of hacks from understanding how customers view a product to determining effective ways of communicating with your audience. Explore this topic and Submit your hack on our Devpost!
Create a Chat Bot
We’d love to see you create your own Discord/Slack Bot or any other chat bot you’d like. Tell us all about it on the Devpost.
Data Game
Create any game that uses a Data set! Share it with us on Devpost.
Use Computer Vision
What if your garbage can could sort your recycling and compost out for you? Build a project that uses computer vision to accomplish a task. Submit your hack on our Devpost!
Recipe Database
Build a way to store recipes so you can access them later on! Share with us on Devpost!
Use Music Data
Build any hack or data project that utalizes music data! You could make a song recommender, playlist generator, or anything else you can dream up! Submit on Devpost.
Explore Artificial Intelligence
We know AI is one of the most popular topics to explore, and we want to challenge you to spend some time this weekend learning more about it. If you’re already familiar, take some time to dive deeper. If you’re new to the topic, follow a tutorial or just spend some time watching videos or reading guides. Tell us what you learned on the Devpost.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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There's no judging and there are no winners at GHW!
GHWs are week long hacker festivals for you to learn, share and explore!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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