Summer Data Challenge

Big Data, Big Bucks: The Challenge has a 4,000 GBP top prize for UK student entries.

Summer Data Challenge is a big data contest organised by Imperial College London's Data Science Institute partnered with Starcount and Purple Seven.

The Summer Data Challenge is an open-ended contest to find new insights using our exclusively prepared datasets, and propose how these new insights can be used to create social or economic value in the form of new products, services, or businesses.

What Can I Submit?

Submissions can take the form of a data visualisation, data-driven Web-application or a data analysis, and will be judged on technical ability, creativity, practicality, and their potential of generating social or economic impact.

Anybody can download our datasets and enter the contest and submissions will be judged by a panel made up of experts from academia and industry. The best submissions will be showcased on Imperial College's Data Science Institute website.

What Can I Win?

There are also prizes for the top-ranking UK student submissions thanks to sponsorship from Research Councils UK:

• 1st place - £4000;
• 2nd place - £3000;
• 3rd place - £2000.

All prizewinners will also be offered a mentoring session with Clive Humby, inventor of the Tesco Clubcard, founder of customer analytics company dunnhumby and director of social analytics startup Starcount.

Prizes will be awarded at the UK Digital Economy conference at Imperial College in December 2014.

 How Do I Get Involved?

For more info, visit the Summer Data Challenge website, Google Group, or tweet with #SummerDataChallenge.