Hackathon being one of the most awaited programs of the Open
Data Day, was celebrated with great enthusiasm and it really proved to be a
great success. The main theme of hackathon was to use open data in creative ideas and show people how it can be
visualized. Teams were given about five hours to work on their ideas and
produce applications using the open data. Total eight teams came up for this challenge.
Judges were constantly reviewing each team. According to
them, they were looking for innovative ideas and the impact that the idea is
going to have on the society. Keeping all these in mind ,teams were all prepared to
bang the cash prize of Rs 10,000/-
One of the team was
of Everest K.C, Sushant Kafle and Abhibandhu Kafle .They were working on Coloropleth
map of Nepal showing population. Their project showed a relationship between various
parameters related to population using colors .For e.g.: UNHCR works on refugee
affairs and if it wants to know work areas, it can use their map to see where
field work could be implemented. They used existing
data to visualize target area.
Another team was of Deepak,
Aayush, Kshitiz . Their project was related
to Petroleum products. This team compared
the price of petroleum products in Nepal and India. They showed how drastically
price of petroleum products have been increasing in Nepal and the impact of such price rise on existing population could be inferred. Similarly Rarendra
Adhikari, Rojan Sinha, Sanjeev Prajapati were working on Weather Visualization. This
team extracted data from MFD(Meteorological Forecast Department) and visualized the data of
temperature and rainfall which could be used as per need.
Rohitman Amatya, Gaurav Rijal, Bibek Chitrakar, Shalil Awaley
and Milan Thapa also formed a team. They were working on project named
News Analysis. This team extracted information about the news and then categorized
the data into various groups such as which news is mostly heard, which
has made more impact on people and so on. They also visualized their data on
the world map.
Likewise, Anish Shrestha,
Sajjan Lamichane , Prakash Bhusal and Gokul Dhakal presented the project named Open
Data Social. Their idea was to convert data to information, so that even
non-related people can gain some knowledge about the data. They tried to
make this information socially available and interactive.They did some data
analysis and visually presented their idea.
Team of Diwakar,
Bhabishyat,Punya worked on project named Agro
Index. They basically showed the relationship between population and food.
Bimal and team
members had an innovative project-Obudget
which tried to share the Aid of Nepal of
last 10 years and how it is being used in our country. They showed the correlation
between the aid, purchasing power and inflation rate.
There was a team who worked on the Analysis of data of SAARC countries.They showed the development
trend in the SAARC countries. They showed their data on bubble chart.
At about 4:00 ,each team was interviewed by the judges. They
were given just five minute to present their project in front of the judges.
After that each team were given 2 minute to give a presentation of their project in front of
everyone.
Everyone had their fingers crossed waiting to know who were going to grab the prize.
Finally, the result was announced by the judges, there were two runner ups:
Obudget and Open Data Social. And last
but not the least the winner was
Petroleum Products.
Judges even mentioned two honorary projects, they were Agro Index and Coloropleth map of
Nepal showing population and encouraged all to further work upon their products.
