BUZZDATA’S FIRST DATA-STORYTELLING CONTEST IS ON!

It was only a matter of time until I tried something like this. Hopefully this will be the start of something awesome here in Toronto (and perhaps abroad, if others want in): people evaluating and competing to tell the best stories with data.

THE GOAL:

To tell the story behind the data through your own BuzzData project

THE PRIZE:

$100 ITunes gift card — inspired by this guy’s prize for his “Pop and Lock-toberfest” circa 2010 (Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.)

THE RULES:

The number of data sources you can include in your project is unlimited, but you must use at least one of the following, and you have to include all data sources used in your final submission.

1) Toronto Water Billing Data for the last 10 years

2) EIU’s democracy index rankings 2008 and/or 2010

3) Canada Revenue Agency Contracts

4) World Bank Development Indicators

THE DEADLINE: 

Midnight EST, Sunday October 23, 2011

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY:

Submit your project by inviting me (Momoko on BuzzData) and the original publisher of your chosen dataset (as above) to check out your project on BuzzData when it’s done. 

If you know how to use BuzzData, submit as follows:

1. Clone one of the datasets above directly from the publisher on BuzzData. Make it private if you don’t want people to see it until it’s ready

2. Build your project on BuzzData (posting links and viz’s as appropriate).

3. When it’s done, note in the Overview which visualization/article/attachment is the final product(s), then, before deadline, invite me and the data publisher to check it out. And don’t forget to make it public if you want to show it to the world!

4. Tweet and link to your project elsewhere if you want to build interest in it (optional, but always a good idea)

If you’ve never used BuzzData before, here’s a quick video that shows how to start, build and submit your data project (don’t worry, it’s super easy!):

THE WINNER WILL BE VOTED ON AT OUR NEXT MEETUP ON OCT. 24! 

(Short notice, but no worries, this will happen monthly)

Want to attend BuzzData’s workshop next week? Here are the details:

Where: Room 120 at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave. (north of Queen St. West in Toronto)

When: Drop in from 6pm onward on Monday, Oct. 24. We’ll be closing up shop by 9pm

RSVP to our Hacks/Hackers meetup group here, please!

Hope to see you there!

-Momoko Price

 (Have you tried BuzzData yet? What are you waiting for, silly?)