Big Data For Social Change Challenge:
Take the IBM-Hadoop Challenge
Nov 10, 2014 – Mar 3, 2015
IBM invites developers and data enthusiasts to take a deep dive into real world civic issues using big data and IBM Bluemix’s Analytics for Hadoop service.
Analyze one of our curated datasets or bring your own (provided it meets these requirements)! Use Hadoop and your data to create a clickable and interactive data visualization to highlight insights that you’ve found.
Up to 20K in cash prizes...
http://ibmhadoop.challengepost.com/
Enter the first-ever National Data Science Bowl: 12.15.2014 - 3.16.2015
Co-sponsored by Booz Allen and Kaggle in partnership with Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center, the competition will be challenging but it will also be incredibly rewarding.
At stake? The very health of our oceans. We will award $175,000 to those able to observe the right patterns, ask the right questions and, in turn, make our beautiful and complex world a little easier to understand and a better place to live.
http://www.datasciencebowl.com/
The Climate Resilience Data Challenge: Through March 31, 2015
Turn Climate Data into a Mobile App and NASA Will Give You $35,000
NASA will give $35,000 to creative mobile developers for turning open government data into an app to help deal with climate change. The Climate Resilience Data Challenge, which starts on Monday and goes through March, is part of a bigger push by the White House, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey other federal agencies to encourage creative coders and innovators to use the vast amounts of public federal data to build tools to help the country as climate change continues to increase the number and severity of natural disasters like floods, droughts and extreme storms.
http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/12/14/climate-data-app-nasa-contest-35000/
Winter Data Science Fellowship Opportunity: The Data Incubator
All sections will be from 03/23/15 to 05/01/15
The Data Incubator is an intensive six-week fellowship that prepares masters, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM + social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for fellows and supported by sponsorships from dozens of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.
Locations: There will be both an in-person (in NYC and DC) and online section of the fellowship.
Who should apply: Anyone within one year of graduating from a masters or PhD program or who has already obtained a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students welcome. There is a common application for both the online and in-person sections. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session
http://www.thedataincubator.com/