About the challenge
Use Hex and publicly available datasets to build insights, dashboards, or applications that solve real-world problems or uncover new opportunities.
Bring your own dataset, explore a topic you care about, or experiment with something completely new. Whether you’re solving a real-world problem, testing a wild idea, or just having fun with data, this is your chance to build something that makes an impact — with Hex as your canvas.
What is Hex?
Step into the future of analytics with Hex, the only unified platform for data impact.
Hex combines the best of analytics, data science, and AI — all in one collaborative workspace.
In Hex, you can:
- Analyze & Explore: Work end-to-end in a powerful, flexible notebook for analysts, engineers, and data scientists.
- Build & Share: Turn analyses into beautiful, interactive data apps for teammates or the world.
- Discover with AI: Use AI-powered data exploration to enable true self-serve analytics and make insights accessible to everyone.
Hex is redefining what analytics tools look like in the AI era — empowering you to go beyond dashboards and build intelligent, conversational, and connected data experiences.
Requirements
What to build
Your challenge: use Hex’s notebook, semantic modeling, and AI capabilities to create something original, insightful, and shareable.
The best projects will feel like something only possible in Hex — blending analytics, storytelling, and AI into an experience that’s both technically impressive and fun to use.
We’ve come up with a few project ideas that may garner your interest, but we encourage you to explore any data that ignites a passion within you.
Option 1 → Prediction Markets Are Taking Over!
Prediction markets have become a rather important, albeit surprising, source of data. Markets are created by placing a bet on a presidential election, if Taylor Swift will get pregnant, which AI model will be the best by the end of the year, and so on. These live odds provide insights into popular opinion and are starting to become trusted sources of information. Learn how to access these datasets here.
Using the dataset provided, or better yet the Kalshi API, to uncover insights and analysis on how betting markets are shaping influence and which ones are most impactful.
Option 2 →Exploring the Evolution of Slang
Ever feel like you are getting old when a teenager says something you have never heard of? Explore how slang has shaped the way we speak, its changes over time, and finally understand what the cool kids are saying these days…
💡Extract data from tweets, trending Youtube video transcripts, Instagram captions, TikTok videos, etc to discover any trends. Uncover any demographic or age importance, the relevance of the most commonly used slang and how long until they are cool to say anymore! Learn how to access these datasets here.
Option 3 → FIFA World Cup 2026 Predictions
2026 marks the first year of the expansion of the FIFA World Cup format from 32 teams to a 48-team format. Use historical trends, current rankings, player form, and any other features that might affect the outcome of a game to predict the winner! Learn how to access these datasets here.
Option 4 → Wildcard: Build Whatever Haunts You
Got a burning question about sports, housing markets, dating apps, or literally anything else? Find a dataset that fascinates you and build something that scratches that analytical itch.
The best projects often come from obsessions we didn't know we had. Surprise us.
Your data. Your question. Your rules.
What to Submit
To complete your submission, include:
- Project Overview: A short written summary describing the problem you are solving for, your approach, methodology, and your findings.
- Public Hex Project: Publish your Hex project error free and share the title in the submission form.
- Demo Video (≤ 3 minutes): A screen recording overview of your Hex project and a Hex Thread if built. Be sure to touch on your overall findings and the most important aspects of your work. This could include but is not limited to the biggest challenges you solved for, explanation of your methodology, or anything else worth noting.
- Share your project online! We love to engage with the data community.
How to get started
Join the Hex Hackathon
Join the Discord for support on any issues you may run into, ask questions, or join in on discussions with fellow hackathoners.
Prizes
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
Fourth Place
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Armin Efendic
Partner Engineer at Hex
Rachel Herrera
Product Evangelist at Hex
Judging Criteria
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Creativity
We want to see your imagination at work! This category rewards creativity in your approach, project interactivity, and clever problem-solving. Challenge yourself to experiment and build something you couldn’t have made with a traditional analytics stack. -
Use of resources
Be resourceful and aim to get the most out of the tools at your disposal. Leverage Hex’s platform (AI features, semantic modeling, data apps, notebooks, and Threads, our AI chatbot) in addition to external tools (calls to LLMs, ETL tools, dbt, etc). -
Data Storytelling
Your analysis should succinctly express the problem and your solution. Data storytelling is about creating something convincing, where sound methodology translates into a story people actually care about. Lastly, ensure your final project is error free!
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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