About Hacklytics 2026: Golden Byte
Step into a world of pure imagination at Hacklytics 2026, where creativity, curiosity, and innovation come together in a factory of endless possibilities. This year’s hackathon invites you to unwrap bold ideas, experiment fearlessly, and turn imaginative concepts into impactful solutions.
As you journey through this whimsical factory of innovation, you’ll tackle real-world challenges and blend technical skill with creativity and vision. Whether you’re crafting your first prototype or refining a polished solution, Hacklytics 2026 is your golden ticket to explore, build, and create alongside fellow innovators.
Bring your ideas, your skills, and your sense of wonder. Let’s see what you can invent.\
Find out more about our hackathon at our website!
TRACKS
Finance
Analyze market trends, predict stock movements, and build cutting-edge fintech solutions. This track is perfect for projects focused on financial modeling, risk analysis, fraud detection, trading strategies, or improving access to financial tools using data and machine learning.
Sports Analytics
Dive into player performance, game strategy, and the future of sports data. Projects in this track may analyze real-time statistics, optimize team decisions, enhance fan engagement, or explore how analytics can redefine athletic performance and competition.
Healthcare
Innovate in bioinformatics, patient care, and personal health technology. This track encourages solutions that improve health outcomes, enhance medical decision-making, personalize care, or use data and AI to tackle challenges in healthcare accessibility and efficiency.
Entertainment
See how AI is transforming movies, gaming, and interactive experiences. Build tools or platforms that enhance storytelling, content creation, player engagement, or immersive media experiences across film, gaming, and digital entertainment.
Pure Imagination
Unleash your creativity, explore unconventional ideas, and use data to build the coolest, most unique project. This track is all about bold thinking—whether your project is experimental, playful, artistic, or completely unexpected, creativity takes center stage here.
Prizes
Best Overall Hack – 1st Place
2nd Overall Hack
3rd Overall Hack
First in Finance
Develop a creative solution that leverages financial data and technology to tackle real-world challenges. Your hack should showcase innovative ways to improve financial services and simplify user experiences.
Second in Finance
Develop a creative solution that leverages financial data and technology to tackle real-world challenges. Your hack should showcase innovative ways to improve financial services and simplify user experiences.
Third in Finance
Develop a creative solution that leverages financial data and technology to tackle real-world challenges. Your hack should showcase innovative ways to improve financial services and simplify user experiences.
First in Sports
From historical data and fundamental scorekeeping to algorithmic performance and player statistics, data analytics is an integral part of sports. In this track, you will be working on sports analytics challenges that will take your data science and machine learning skills to the next level.
Second in Sports
From historical data and fundamental scorekeeping to algorithmic performance and player statistics, data analytics is an integral part of sports. In this track, you will be working on sports analytics challenges that will take your data science and machine learning skills to the next level.
Third in Sports
From historical data and fundamental scorekeeping to algorithmic performance and player statistics, data analytics is an integral part of sports. In this track, you will be working on sports analytics challenges that will take your data science and machine learning skills to the next level.
First in Healthcare
Health data science is a growing field that incorporates health informatics, data science, analytics, and computational modeling to assess large volumes of data from healthcare-related sources. In this track, you will be analyzing some of these datasets to help solve crucial, real-world problems in public health or the biomedical sciences.
Second in Healthcare
Health data science is a growing field that incorporates health informatics, data science, analytics, and computational modeling to assess large volumes of data from healthcare-related sources. In this track, you will be analyzing some of these datasets to help solve crucial, real-world problems in public health or the biomedical sciences.
Third in Healthcare
Health data science is a growing field that incorporates health informatics, data science, analytics, and computational modeling to assess large volumes of data from healthcare-related sources. In this track, you will be analyzing some of these datasets to help solve crucial, real-world problems in public health or the biomedical sciences.
First in Entertainment
Discover how AI is redefining entertainment. From film and gaming to immersive and interactive experiences, create projects that push the boundaries of how audiences engage with content.
Second in Entertainment
Discover how AI is redefining entertainment. From film and gaming to immersive and interactive experiences, create projects that push the boundaries of how audiences engage with content.
Third in Entertainment
Discover how AI is redefining entertainment. From film and gaming to immersive and interactive experiences, create projects that push the boundaries of how audiences engage with content.
Most Imaginative
Unleash your creativity, explore unconventional ideas, and use data to build the coolest, most unique project.
Most Unique Application of Sphinx
Recognizes a project that applies Sphinx’s tools or data in a novel, impactful, or unexpected way.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Hacklytics
Judging Criteria
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Creativity and Originality
Projects should demonstrate a unique, unexpected approach to the data analysis and/or solution development. -
Impact and Relevance
Projects should provide strong and adequate evidence that they present potential benefits to society, science, and/or policy. They should also align strongly with the goals of the competition. -
Scope and Technical Depth
Projects should utilize an adequate variety and complexity of data/tools. They should use these tools correctly and consistently within analysis and/or development. -
Clarity and Engagement
Projects should provide a well-organized, complete and clear description of the approach used, tools utilized, and conclusions made. -
Soundness and Accuracy
Projects' data analysis techniques used in projects should be consistent and correct; conclusions must also be logical. -
Video Presentation and Communication
Project video submissions should clearly explain the approach, tools, and conclusions while being engaging, enthusiastic, and well-structured to capture and maintain the audience's attention.
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