Real Data
Real Data
Find Insights
Find Insights
Explain Results
Explain Results
Train Models
Train Models
Build. Analyze. Present.
Build. Analyze. Present.
Datathons at CODED
Datathons at CODED
CODED Datathons are fast-paced data challenges where teams turn messy datasets into clear insights, models, and decision-ready stories. Join to practice real analysis, collaborate under time pressure, and present results like a real data team.
CODED Datathons are fast-paced data challenges where teams turn messy datasets into clear insights, models, and decision-ready stories. Join to practice real analysis, collaborate under time pressure, and present results like a real data team.
Next Datathons
Next Datathons
Find the right challenge to test your skills and build a real data portfolio piece.
Find the right challenge to test your skills and build a real data portfolio piece.
Hackathon Kuwait
Learn to build real-world web applications from zero to deployment in a structured, mentor-led program—designed for beginners and career switchers in Kuwait.
May 21, 2026
Sun–Wed
5:00–8:45 PM
Hackathon Kuwait
Learn to build real-world web applications from zero to deployment in a structured, mentor-led program—designed for beginners and career switchers in Kuwait.
May 21, 2026
Sun–Wed
5:00–8:45 PM
Hackathon Kuwait
Learn to build real-world web applications from zero to deployment in a structured, mentor-led program—designed for beginners and career switchers in Kuwait.
May 21, 2026
Sun–Wed
5:00–8:45 PM
Next Datathons
Next Datathons
Find the right challenge to test your skills and build a real data portfolio piece.
Find the right challenge to test your skills and build a real data portfolio piece.
New dates coming soon
We announce Datathons regularly. Join the list and we’ll notify you the moment registration opens.
What You’ll Leave With
You’ll leave with work you can show, skills you can reuse, and feedback that levels you up fast.
A Portfolio Project
A complete analysis or model with a clear narrative and visuals.
A Portfolio Project
A complete analysis or model with a clear narrative and visuals.
A Portfolio Project
A complete analysis or model with a clear narrative and visuals.
Real Data Practice
Work with real-world messiness: missing values, bias, and tradeoffs.
Real Data Practice
Work with real-world messiness: missing values, bias, and tradeoffs.
Real Data Practice
Work with real-world messiness: missing values, bias, and tradeoffs.
Team Collaboration
Split roles like analysts do: data, modeling, viz, and storytelling.
Team Collaboration
Split roles like analysts do: data, modeling, viz, and storytelling.
Team Collaboration
Split roles like analysts do: data, modeling, viz, and storytelling.
Mentor Feedback
Improve methodology, clarity, and presentation before final submission.
Mentor Feedback
Improve methodology, clarity, and presentation before final submission.
Mentor Feedback
Improve methodology, clarity, and presentation before final submission.
Made for Every Data Role
Made for Every Data Role
Whether you analyze, model, or communicate insights, there’s a meaningful role for you.
Whether you analyze, model, or communicate insights, there’s a meaningful role for you.
Insight Hunters
Love finding patterns and explaining what the data really says. Perfect for analysts and curious beginners.
Insight Hunters
Love finding patterns and explaining what the data really says. Perfect for analysts and curious beginners.
Insight Hunters
Love finding patterns and explaining what the data really says. Perfect for analysts and curious beginners.
Model Builders
Enjoy ML, prediction, and optimization. Build and validate models with practical evaluation and constraints.
Model Builders
Enjoy ML, prediction, and optimization. Build and validate models with practical evaluation and constraints.
Model Builders
Enjoy ML, prediction, and optimization. Build and validate models with practical evaluation and constraints.
Story Shapers
Turn analysis into a decision-ready narrative with dashboards, visuals, and a strong presentation.
Story Shapers
Turn analysis into a decision-ready narrative with dashboards, visuals, and a strong presentation.
Story Shapers
Turn analysis into a decision-ready narrative with dashboards, visuals, and a strong presentation.
Simple Format. Strong Results.
Simple Format. Strong Results.
Clear steps, clear milestones, and a final showcase so you stay focused.
Clear steps, clear milestones, and a final showcase so you stay focused.
Register
Secure your spot and get the prep pack.
Register
Secure your spot and get the prep pack.
Register
Secure your spot and get the prep pack.
Team Up
Join solo or match into a balanced team.
Team Up
Join solo or match into a balanced team.
Team Up
Join solo or match into a balanced team.
Explore Data
Understand the dataset, clean it, and define your approach.
Explore Data
Understand the dataset, clean it, and define your approach.
Explore Data
Understand the dataset, clean it, and define your approach.
Build Insights
Analyze, model, and validate your findings.
Build Insights
Analyze, model, and validate your findings.
Build Insights
Analyze, model, and validate your findings.
Present
Submit results and pitch your story to judges.
Present
Submit results and pitch your story to judges.
Present
Submit results and pitch your story to judges.
You’re Not Doing This Alone
Mentors and structure help you move faster, make better decisions, and produce cleaner work.
Mentor Access
Get checkpoints on your approach, results, and how you’re framing the story.
Mentor Access
Get checkpoints on your approach, results, and how you’re framing the story.
Live Support
Office hours and quick help when you’re stuck or unsure.
Live Support
Office hours and quick help when you’re stuck or unsure.
Team Matching
Build balanced teams across analysis, ML, and visualization strengths.
Team Matching
Build balanced teams across analysis, ML, and visualization strengths.
Mentor Access
Get checkpoints on your approach, results, and how you’re framing the story.
Team Matching
Build balanced teams across analysis, ML, and visualization strengths.
Live Support
Office hours and quick help when you’re stuck or unsure.
Judging Made Clear
Teams are evaluated on insight quality and execution—not buzzwords.
Problem Framing
Clear question, strong assumptions, and why it matters.
Problem Framing
Clear question, strong assumptions, and why it matters.
Problem Framing
Clear question, strong assumptions, and why it matters.
Method Quality
Sound approach, proper validation, and responsible handling of data.
Method Quality
Sound approach, proper validation, and responsible handling of data.
Method Quality
Sound approach, proper validation, and responsible handling of data.
Clarity of Insights
Findings are understandable, meaningful, and well-supported.
Clarity of Insights
Findings are understandable, meaningful, and well-supported.
Clarity of Insights
Findings are understandable, meaningful, and well-supported.
Story & Visuals
Strong narrative, clean charts, and decision-ready communication.
Story & Visuals
Strong narrative, clean charts, and decision-ready communication.
Story & Visuals
Strong narrative, clean charts, and decision-ready communication.
Practical Impact
Recommendations are realistic and tied to outcomes.
Practical Impact
Recommendations are realistic and tied to outcomes.
Practical Impact
Recommendations are realistic and tied to outcomes.
Reproducibility
Clear documentation so others can follow the work.
Reproducibility
Clear documentation so others can follow the work.
Reproducibility
Clear documentation so others can follow the work.
Prizes note: Prize details vary by event and sponsor. Full details are shared before the datathon begins.
See What Teams Have Discovered
A quick look at the insights, dashboards, and models teams deliver in a short sprint.
Sponsorship With Real Impact
Sponsor a CODED Datathon to engage a pipeline of data talent, strengthen your employer brand, and surface real prototypes or insights around real challenges.
Talent Pipeline
Meet teams who can analyze, model, and communicate under deadlines.
Talent Pipeline
Meet teams who can analyze, model, and communicate under deadlines.
Talent Pipeline
Meet teams who can analyze, model, and communicate under deadlines.
Brand Trust
Position your organization as a supporter of data literacy and innovation.
Brand Trust
Position your organization as a supporter of data literacy and innovation.
Brand Trust
Position your organization as a supporter of data literacy and innovation.
Innovation Output
Get practical insights, dashboards, or prototype models tied to your theme.
Innovation Output
Get practical insights, dashboards, or prototype models tied to your theme.
Innovation Output
Get practical insights, dashboards, or prototype models tied to your theme.
Your Questions Answered Quickly and Clearly
Your Questions Answered Quickly and Clearly
Our FAQ section provides swift and clear answers to common questions, guiding you seamlessly through features and functionalities.
Our FAQ section provides swift and clear answers to common questions, guiding you seamlessly through features and functionalities.
Do I need to be a data scientist to join?
No. Datathons have roles beyond modeling—data cleaning, analysis, visualization, storytelling, and presentation. If you can work with data (or want to learn fast), you’ll contribute.
Can I join solo, or do I need a team?
You can join solo. We support team matching so teams can balance skills (analysis, modeling, visualization, and storytelling). If you already have a team, register together.
What do we deliver by the end of the datathon?
A clear, decision-ready output: insights and visuals, and sometimes a simple model (depending on the event). You’ll submit your work and present your story on demo day.
What tools are we allowed to use?
Most datathons allow common tools like Python/R, notebooks, Excel, SQL, and BI tools (e.g., Power BI/Tableau)—the exact rules are shared per event. Use what helps you deliver clean, explainable results.
How is judging done?
Teams are judged on methodology and clarity—not buzzwords. Expect scoring on problem framing, quality of analysis/modeling, validity of insights, storytelling/visuals, practicality, and reproducibility. Full criteria are shared before kickoff.
Do I need to be a data scientist to join?
No. Datathons have roles beyond modeling—data cleaning, analysis, visualization, storytelling, and presentation. If you can work with data (or want to learn fast), you’ll contribute.
Can I join solo, or do I need a team?
You can join solo. We support team matching so teams can balance skills (analysis, modeling, visualization, and storytelling). If you already have a team, register together.
What do we deliver by the end of the datathon?
A clear, decision-ready output: insights and visuals, and sometimes a simple model (depending on the event). You’ll submit your work and present your story on demo day.
What tools are we allowed to use?
Most datathons allow common tools like Python/R, notebooks, Excel, SQL, and BI tools (e.g., Power BI/Tableau)—the exact rules are shared per event. Use what helps you deliver clean, explainable results.
How is judging done?
Teams are judged on methodology and clarity—not buzzwords. Expect scoring on problem framing, quality of analysis/modeling, validity of insights, storytelling/visuals, practicality, and reproducibility. Full criteria are shared before kickoff.
Do I need to be a data scientist to join?
No. Datathons have roles beyond modeling—data cleaning, analysis, visualization, storytelling, and presentation. If you can work with data (or want to learn fast), you’ll contribute.
Can I join solo, or do I need a team?
You can join solo. We support team matching so teams can balance skills (analysis, modeling, visualization, and storytelling). If you already have a team, register together.
What do we deliver by the end of the datathon?
A clear, decision-ready output: insights and visuals, and sometimes a simple model (depending on the event). You’ll submit your work and present your story on demo day.
What tools are we allowed to use?
Most datathons allow common tools like Python/R, notebooks, Excel, SQL, and BI tools (e.g., Power BI/Tableau)—the exact rules are shared per event. Use what helps you deliver clean, explainable results.
How is judging done?
Teams are judged on methodology and clarity—not buzzwords. Expect scoring on problem framing, quality of analysis/modeling, validity of insights, storytelling/visuals, practicality, and reproducibility. Full criteria are shared before kickoff.