Nova Scotia Open Data Contest
The third annual Nova Scotia Open Data Contest will be held March 2 – 3, 2019 in partnership with Dalhousie University’s School of Management and in conjunction with International Open Data Day.
The contest will take place from 8:30 AM Saturday, March 2nd until approximately 2:15 PM Sunday, March 3rd.
Teams will then present their solutions and awards will be made. There will be cash prizes (including a $4000 top prize) for winning submissions.
Students, entrepreneurs and citizens – are being challenged to create one of the following:
- An application (web / mobile / desktop) that is innovative, easy-to-use, and beneficial to a broad range of stakeholders. The app must use at least one data set from the Nova Scotia Open Data portal.
- A visualization that is compelling, creative, informative, and easy to understand. Submissions should clearly articulate the value of the analysis, and what specific objective it achieves. Submissions should draw on multiple data sets that must include at least one data set from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal.
- A predictive model that generates interesting, informative and useful models based on relative data sets including those from Nova Scotia Open Source Data, at least one of which will be from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal.
- Any other innovative solution that demonstrates the value of open data. The solution must use at least one dataset from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal
[source: data.novascotia.ca]
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