sasha-ruby
commented
7 years ago Hi Martin,
in the How to Contribute (How to Apply) section above, it is said that "the ‘Letter of Interest’ can be a maximum of two-pages", while in the PDF file itself (which is already 4 pages long), it is said that "The ‘Letter of Interest’ should be a maximum of six-‐pages". Also, space available in each question of the LOI is limited to one row. How exactly are the applicants supposed to expand that space and fill in answers? Can you please clarify?
Thanks, Sasha
harpreetsingh91
MonkmanMH
Background
BC Innovation Council, BC Stats, and BC Centre for Data Innovation are inviting B.C. innovators and data visualization experts to submit ‘Letters of Interest’ explaining how they can support and solve data visualization opportunities using government and other sources of data. In this specific example, the data visualization challenge is being applied to B.C. Housing market data.
Letters of Interest will be reviewed by a panel of experts. The top five submissions will receive $10,000 and mentorship from the BC Innovation Council and BC Stats to develop their prototypes. The best solution will be chosen at the #BCTECH Summit and will benefit from an additional $25,000 for continued development.
User Story
As a government program owner I need to be able to improve our data visualization capacity and the usefulness of Crown data so that large volumes of data are more accessible, understandable and support government in evidence-based decision making.
Acceptance Criteria
How to Contribute (How to Apply)
Complete and submit the ‘Letter of Interest’ form by Tuesday January 10, 2017 at 4:00pm PST via email to the BC Innovation Council at connect@bcic.ca (Subject Line: Data Visualization Challenge, Letter of Interest). The ‘Letter of Interest’ can be a maximum of two-pages, and must be submitted in arial 10 font. Condensed fonts will not be accepted. Submissions are welcome from all B.C. innovators.
Non-Confidential: All content provided in the ‘Letter of Interest' must be public. Please understand that by signing and submitting the ‘Letter of Interest’ you are acknowledging that the content provided is non-confidential information about your company, idea or innovation, and that the BC Innovation Council will be contacting you to discuss your submission and will share this information with reviewers as part of the evaluation process.
How the challenge works:
Competing submissions from B.C. tech companies will move through three stages. Interested parties will submit a Letter of Interest providing initial information on their background and the proposed solution. The top five submissions will receive $10,000 and mentorship from BC Innovation Council and BC Stats to develop their prototypes. The best solution will be chosen at the #BCTECH Summit, and will benefit from an additional $25,000 to be put towards continued development of the visualization platform.
What to include in your proposal (evaluation criteria)
The solutions that visualize the B.C. Housing market data should have the potential to be applied to data visualization needs in other areas of government, using various sources of data (model data, actual government data, and external industry data). In addition, solutions should incorporate the use of a collaborative platform that makes it easy for government teams and service providers to share code, works-in-progress and open data related to the visualizations (B.C. Government GitHub space is preferred). Potential use cases of such a platform are extensive and the intention is to generate visualizations that can easily and cost-effectively be shared by government through engagement platforms (i.e. online, social media, events).
The visualization should be designed with the assumption that additional types of housing-related data will be integrated in the future. The visualizations should also provide useful and engaging experiences, as in the following examples:
Locating neighborhood diversity in the American metropolis (created using the open source statistical software R) https://walkerke.shinyapps.io/neighborhood_diversity/
Growth Potential of Baltimore Neighbourhoods http://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public/Whitehouse_Hackathon/index.html
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
If you have any questions submit them to connect@bcic.ca or post your questions in the comments section below.