http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/ Sat, 25 May 2013 04:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1177015 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:39:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1177015 @sraspa: the contest is now over. Did the open source platform get leveraged by any of the winners?

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1061388 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:27:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1061388 “How can we make heterogeneous (dissimilar and incompatible) data sets homogeneous (uniformly accessible, compatible, able to be grouped and/or matched) so usable information can be extracted?” This is exactly what IKANOW’s open source platform, Infinit.e does – http://www.ikanow.com/platform-services/platform/

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1043945 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:09:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1043945 Thank you @Bosstiger for the re-blog! Appreciate it!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1043942 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:08:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1043942 Hi Dolin, the first contest is an idea generation contest around Big Data, not an algorithm challenge or something of that type of lift. It’s part of a series of competitions that will progress towards traditional data science open challenges. Later contests will have progressively larger prizes. Thanks for the comment! – @TopCoder

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1040963 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:08:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1040963 Reblogged this on Gigable – Tech Blog.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1040104 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:46:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1040104 I believe the first prize is 500$… the total prize money for 1st and 2nd prize is 1000$

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/10/03/nasa-tries-to-free-creativity-with-big-data-challenge/#comment-1039610 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:32:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=569477#comment-1039610 Did I read that right? A $1,000 prize? What??????

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