Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions – A Weekend Hackathon (sponsored by Zillow and UW)
Zillow
and the department of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington, with participation from the White House, U.S.
Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), will host a weekend hackathon at Zillow’s HQ,
February 6-8, 2015.
Participating
developers and designers will be tasked with creating transparency
around thousands of local and federal data sets, to help people in their
housing decisions. As part of the event, participants will have access
to newly released government data sets on topics like federal housing
programs; apartment buildings with accessible apartments; and transit
information. In
addition, Zillow will make available its data on home values and rents.
Zillow
co-founder Rich Barton will open the event by sharing his experience in
the tech and housing sector and his success in bringing power to the
people across a number of industries. After a day and a half of hard
work, participants will present their solutions to a judging panel of
local tech leaders, entrepreneurs and federal government officials
specializing in big/open data.
The winning team will receive a $10,000 prize.
The event registration is here: https://hackhousinghackathon.eventbrite.com
