"SFU Data Crunchers" Win Best Student Team at the Canadian Open Data Experience 2015, Ottawa, Ontario.
Jasneet Sabharwal, Bradley Ellert, Jonathan Bhaskar and Maryam Siahbani were 4 of 1,300 competitors who made up the "SFU Data Cruchers" team who attended the Canadian Open Data Experience 2015 - the largest hackathon in Canadian History! CODE is an intense 48 hour coding sprint where innovators from across the country competed to build the best application in either Business, Healthy Living, or Youth Employment using federal government data from Canada's open government portal.
The "SFU Data Cruchers" built an application called "High School Down, Where Next?" The app allowed recent high school graduates to look at all post-secondary institutions in Canada along with the programs that they offer and the associated tuition fees - users could not only drill down to programs that fell within any financial constraints, but could see the average monthly cost of rental properties available near their perferred academic institution.
Click here for a detailed account of Big Data student Jonathan's experience at CODE 2015.
Please join us in congratulating them on their success!
Further reading:
http://sfu-data-crunchers.herokuapp.com
http://open.canada.ca/en/blog/code-2015-winning-teams
http://open.canada.ca/en/canadian-open-data-experience-code
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=956189
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1508817/canadian-open-data-experience-winners-demonstrate-innovative-spirit