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American Energy Data Challenge

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Re: American Energy Data Challenge

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Post by ceworthington »

This is the first of four contests that will run throughout the coming year. Contest #2, scheduled for Jan - March, is going to ask for functioning apps / prototypes that address an idea surfaced in part #1 (with larger prizes). Contest #3 will be a design and visualization challenge.

The goal was to engage a broad community (read: MBAs :-) ... but also energy professionals/researchers that can't necessarily code). But we're hoping to fire up the dev/designer community in Contests #2-4. We've already seen some awesome ideas submitted, so we're hoping this model works well.

Source: I'm currently an Innovation Fellow detailed to the Department of Energy working on Open Data. Hope you all submit an idea!

Re: American Energy Data Challenge

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Post by ceworthington »

powertower wrote: post #9

Seriously, even if no real or scalable solutions are ever provided, the government should hand out 10s of 1000s of business challenges and prizes every year... By having every government department list it's internal data and issues. Your job would be to improve the processes, and/or solve the issues. It wouldn't cost that much (the price of healthcare.gov website + a couple of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters), and would…

Some of my Innovation Fellow colleagues at GSA are trying to do just that: making it easier for modern, small web development shops to apply for government IT contracts.

Check it out: https://rfpez.sba.gov/

Re: American Energy Data Challenge

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Post by ammmir »

ceworthington wrote: post #12
powertower wrote: post #9

Seriously, even if no real or scalable solutions are ever provided, the government should hand out 10s of 1000s of business challenges and prizes every year... By having every government department list it's internal data and issues. Your job would be to improve the processes, and/or solve the issues. It wouldn't cost that much (the price of healthcare.gov website + a couple of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters), and would…

Some of my Innovation Fellow colleagues at GSA are trying to do just that: making it easier for modern, small web development shops to apply for government IT contracts. Check it out: https://rfpez.sba.gov/

i just signed up for RFP-EZ, looks great, except all of the existing projects seem to be links to massive FBO RFPs. hopefully more projects are submitted soon!

Re: American Energy Data Challenge

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Post by lowkeykiwi »

VladRussian2 wrote: post #7
angersock wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You nonironically use "#hardproblems" in your opening paragraph on that page. Go clutter up the next "Who's hiring" thread. Edit: the little robot is adorable, though.

the staff photo is like a photo of septuplets.

in pyjamas.
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