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Oct 3, 2012. WASHINGTON -- NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy announced Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL).
The Big Data Challenge series will apply the process of open innovation to conceptualizing new and novel approaches to using "big data" information sets from various U.S. government agencies. This data comes from the fields of health, energy and Earth science. Competitors will be tasked with imagining analytical techniques and software tools that use big data from discrete government information domains. They will need to describe how the data may be shared as universal, cross-agency solutions that transcend the limitations of individual agencies.
The competition will be run by the NTL, a collaboration between NASA, Harvard University and TopCoder, a competitive community of digital creators. The TopCoder Open Innovation platform and process allows U.S. government agencies to conduct high risk/high reward challenges in an open and transparent environment with predictable cost, measurable outcomes-based results and the potential to move quickly into unanticipated directions and new areas of software technology. Registration is open through Oct. 13 for the Ideation Challenge phase, the first of four idea generation competitions in the series.
In this contest series, competitors are asked to consider big data ideas from several different perspectives. We begin with a contest that will award the best ideas for tools and techniques for homogenizing disparate data sources and topics. In later contests, we'll ask for ideas that are more focused in the domains of Health, Energy and Earth Science. Check out the contest specifications, and good luck!
For full competition details and registration, visit:
community.topcoder.com/coeci/nitrd/
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