Topic: Another data challenge to add to the list!<http://groups.google.com/group/sunlightlabs/t/82fffec3666f1f9e>
Kathleen Danielson <[email protected]> Apr 19 12:21PM -0700 ^<#12f745250b2cb0ef_digest_top> Hi All, Just in case there weren't enough data challenges open right now, I wanted to let you all know about another one, the CDC Flu App Challenge (http://fluapp.challenge.gov). The CDC has released some flu data that they'd like to see you combine with any other public datasets you can find to develop an app aimed at educating the public about flu trends and encouraging healthy behavior (flu shots!). The CDC is offering $35,000 in prizes. Here's the breakdown: First Place - $15,000 Second Place - $10,000 Third Place - $5,000 People's Choice - $2,500 Honorable mention - $2,500 Judges will have the discretion of awarding up to five "honorable mention" prizes at $500 each. I've copied some of the information below, but if you'd like to skip all of that, you can head straight to the challenge itself: http://fluapp.challenge.gov If you have any questions, please let me know-- I'll do my best to answer them. (my employer, Forum One Communications, is helping the CDC to run this challenge). Cheers, Kathleen Danielson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Build an App to Help Fight Flu. $35K in prizes! Channel your inner geeks Like building apps, tools and techy widgets? Know someone who does? Check out the CDC Flu App Challenge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is looking for an innovative and creative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and/or educate consumers on ways to prevent and treat the flu, be it for: the web a personal computer, a mobile handheld device, or any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet. What's in it for you? Challenging competition. Potential cash prize. And satisfaction in contributing to a healthier public! The tools and technology products that best satisfy the competition criteria will receive cash prizes ($35,000 in prizes offered) and the opportunity to have the apps featured on the CDC website. Applicants are encouraged to mashup CDC data with any other publicly-accessible data feeds from around the web, and to be creative in exploring approaches for realizing the goals. You pick the technology and design the idea, we’ll provide the data CDC compiles a wealth of data that often go unnoticed by the technical community. The mission of the CDC Flu App Challenge is to introduce the software development community to those resources and generate useful and innovative applications with those data. We require that you use at least one of the following data sets in your technical solution: Influenza Vaccination Estimates http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/reporti1011/resources/2010-11_Coverage.xls XML source of the Weekly Flu Activity Report http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/flureport.xml RSS Feed of Influenza pages through content syndication http://t.cdc.gov/feed.aspx?tpc=26829&days=90 RSS Feed of Influenza updates http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/createrss.asp?t=r&c=20 RSS Feed of Influenza podcasts http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/searchandcreaterss.asp?topic=flu RSS Feed of CDC Features pages through content syndication http://t.cdc.gov/feed.aspx?tpc=26816&fromdate=1/1/2011 JSON Feed of Influenza pages through content syndication http://t.cdc.gov/feed.aspx?tpc=26829&days=90&fmt=json JSON Feed of CDC Features pages through content syndication http://t.cdc.gov/feed.aspx?tpc=26816&fromdate=1/1/2011&fmt=json In addition, you can draw on data and resources from any other online public sources, related to flu or otherwise. We anticipate winning entries to draw on one or more of the CDC data sources, but you can combine them with any interesting array of other resources. Learn More & Enter to Win! Prizes are as follows: First Place: $15,000 Second Place: $10,000 Third Place: $5,000 People's Choice: $2,500 Honorable Mention: $2,500 (judges will have the discretion of awarding up to five "honorable mention" prizes at $500 each) Submissions are due May 27, 2011. Enter to win at http://fluapp.challenge.gov. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sunlightlabs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sunlightlabs?hl=en. -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] ==========================================
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