Earn your share of $25,000 wrangling US presidential election data

4 points by timsehn 5y ago ↗ HN

Hi Hacker News,

CEO of DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com) here. We are running a contest on DoltHub to gather and clean US Presidential Election precinct-level results. The prize pool is $25,000. The prize will be divided up in February based on number of cells added to the database, last edit of a single cell wins.

This kind of contest is possible because Dolt (https://www.doltdb.com) is a database with Git-style version control. It's the only SQL database you can branch and merge allowing hundreds of people to collaboratively edit.

For more information and some hints about how to get started, check out:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-12-14-make-money-data-wrangling/

We're looking forward to this community's contributions.

2 comments

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flurly 5y ago ↗

Wow this is super cool. Looking forward to participating in this competition :)

AnimalMuppet 5y ago ↗

Last edit wins? For $25,000, I might edit every single cell, then put them all back, just before the deadline, and take all the money.

Also, the election was highly political. (I mean, even more than a regular election.) You're going to need to take some steps, not just against financial cheating (my first paragraph), but against political cheating (falsified results).

Sorry to be a downer, but I think you're going to need to solve these issues to have a viable project.