Bayes Impact is a Y Combinator-backed nonprofit that brings data science solutions to big social problems. We run a 12-month full-time fellowship for leading data scientists and work with civic and nonprofit organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the White House.

Co-hosted by Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8, we’re inviting 150+ leading data scientists, engineers, and designers to join us for a 24-hour hackathon to create data-driven solutions for social problems being tackled by some of the most impactful organizations in the world. The winning hack will become a Bayes Impact project, staffed with full-time data scientists and engineers who will work with our partners to bring the hack to life.

Eligibility

Participants must apply at www.bayesimpact.org/hack. Participants will be notified if they have received an invitation to compete.

Requirements

All teams must be properly registered through ChallengePost by the submission deadline on Sunday, November 16th to be considered for judging.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

Grand Prize - The Day of Awesome

The winning team will get a Day of Awesome. This entails sitting down for coffee with Alexis Ohanian (Cofounder of Reddit), grabbing lunch with Jerry Yang (Cofounder of Yahoo!), and getting dinner with Joe Lonsdale (Cofounder of Palantir) at his house!

First Runner Up -The Sweetness

Our first runner up will get a sit-down coffee meeting with Pejman Nozad, a legendary angel investor in Silicon Valley. On top of that, the first runner up team will win a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ Drone!