Twenty-eight teams spent the weekend using data from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal to develop innovative solutions as part of the third annual open data contest, held at Dalhousie University.
First place was awarded to Om Agarwal for a tool that uses diagnostic procedure results and machine learning to assist with cancer diagnosis.
The team of Keji Fasuyi, Sadman Hoque Sadi and Sarbottam Thapa Magar won second place for their surplus food notification app.
Third place was awarded to Yingda Guo and Matthew Richard for their predictive disease dashboard.
The People’s Choice award, selected by contest participants, was won by Tina Roberts-Jeffers for a tourism/staycation app.
“These students were challenged to put their creativity and problem-solving skills to work and create something new and beneficial for the public,” said Minister of Internal Services Patricia Arab. “They showed us what is possible when we use, reuse and share our data.”
Nova Scotia launched the portal in 2016 to provide the public with free access to government data in open formats. New data is added to the portal and existing data is refreshed on a regular basis.
The portal address is https://data.novascotia.ca/ .
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Twenty-eight teams spent the weekend using data from the Nova Scotia Open Data Portal to develop innovative solutions as part of the third annual open data contest, held at Dalhousie University.
First place was awarded to a student who created a tool that uses diagnostic procedure results and machine learning to assist with cancer diagnosis.
Other winners include a surplus food notification app, a predictive disease dashboard, and a tourism/staycation app.
Internal Services Minister Patricia Arab says the students used their creativity and problem-solving skills to show what is possible when we use, reuse and share our data.
Nova Scotia launched the portal in 2016 and has continuously provided the public with free access to government data in open formats.
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