This challenge is open to:

• Individuals (who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry); Teams of eligible individuals; Organizations (up to 50 employees)

• Organizations with over 50 employees may compete for the non-cash Large Organization Recognition Award. 

Government owned entities and participants who are employed by IBM are not eligible. Please see Official Rules for details.

What to Create: Participants must create a working, clickable, and interactive data visualization utilizing the Analytics for Hadoop service on IBM Bluemix.

Applications must have been newly created by the participant after October 15, 2014. 

Data Requirements: Your data visualization must analyze one or more datasets included in the curated list of datasets on the Data page OR meet the data size, content, and licensing requirements described on the Data page. The total size of the Datasets analyzed must be between 500MB - 7GB in size.

Supplemental Material: You must submit a demo video (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku) that walks through the main functionality of the app via screencast or video. You must also submit a text description and at least one image/screenshot of your working app. Your text description and video should explain the insights gathered from the data and the process and method used in order to reach that insight, including the tools and algorithms used.

Testing: You must make your app available for testing by providing a link to access your web-hosted, public application on the “Website URL” field of the Enter a Submission form..

Availability: Applications must not be publicly available for purchase on an online store or website prior to the announcement of Challenge winners.