Dash for Gold is a free and interactive online app that provides intuitive dashboards to analyse past and present medal counts to enable anyone to predict outcomes at sports competitions.
Try out Dash for Gold to predict the results of events in the London 2012 Olympics.
Dash for Gold is the result of collaboration between Actuate and KXEN.
Actuate produces Business Intelligence software while KXEN is its Big Data partner provides predictive analytics software for business users.
Contest: BIRT Dash for Gold
BIRT Dash for Gold is a competition beginning tomorrow (ends on 15 August) that will give participants an opportunity to create their own interactive dashboards to uncover trends and fun facts about the world’s top sporting competitions by comparing economic, climatic, historical and other indicators to sports data.
With simple drag and drop Google-style gadgets, users will be able to discover hidden correlations and expose exciting information about their favorite countries and sporting events.
Users can register and submit their dashboards to the contest and the dashboards will be published to the community for all to see.
Judges will evaluate and choose the top four dashboards and each will win a 32GB 3rd generation Apple iPad with WiFi.
Dash for Gold enables users to leverage Business Intelligence and predictive analytics to discover hidden trends that can be used to help predict performance and outcomes in sports competitions.
The app includes predetermined dashboards but allows users to perform their own analytics.
The app can be used by everyone to analyse competition results (not just the Olympics) since 1900 against 52 years of world statistics to hypothesize which statistics are determinants of medal success.
Dash for Gold, which covers sporting history for every competing country, is available as a mobile app, with a comprehensive browser version in English, French, German and Simplified Chinese.
People using Dash for Gold will be able to analyze massive data sets, via an intuitive user interface and also have the ability to share and publish their findings. No prior experience with analytics is necessary to find answers to questions such as:
Which country has won the most medals in your favorite sports?
Does the host nation have a home field advantage?
Does your country send better men or women to major global sporting competitions?
Does per capita wine consumption affect who stands on the podium?
Super high-resolution image will capture each of the 70,000 spectators in detail. The 20-Gigapixel photograph will be uploaded and spectators will be able to zoom in, locate and tag themselves.
Getty Images is the official Photographic Agency for the London 2012 Olympic Games which opens tomorrow.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, Getty Images and Fujitsu have announced that they will be snapping a gigapixel photograph of the event, enabling spectators – all 70,000 of them! – to zoom in, find and tag themselves.
This is the camera set up that Getty Images’ gigapixel photographer Henry Stuart will be using at London 2012 Olympics. It’s a Nikon D800. (Photo credit: Henry Stuart)
Images of such a high resolution usually take days to upload but thanks to leading-edge speed and performance of the Fujitsu CELSIUS R920 workstation, the image will be available to view on www.gettyimages.com overnight – up to 12 times faster than previously possible.
This will be the 13th consecutive Olympics for which Getty Images has been appointed as the Official Photographic Agency to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Photographers Linka Anne Odom and Klaus Thymann, alongside agencies Good Pilot and Mother London, have won the 2012 Getty Images Creative Grants.
Each of the two teams will receive US$15,000.
Pathways sees photographer Linka Anne Odom and agency Good Pilot collaborate with D-Foundation to pursue a project which aims to recruit volunteers to increase effectiveness of medical care provided to vulnerable people in India. Through their visual communication, they aim to inspire doctors to travel to India and donate their skills to the project, as well as raise awareness around D-Foundation itself by creating pop-up exhibitions highlighting the charity’s work in hospitals around Germany.
This year, the Getty Images Creative Grants received 75 submissions from photographers and agencies in 20 countries.
Each team comprises a photographer and communications professional.
The US$15,000 will be used to cover the costs of developing compelling new imagery to strengthen the communications of a non-profit organisation the recipients have chosen to support.
Project Pressure, by photographer Klaus Thymann and agency Mother London will visually highlight global glacial history, before the demise of this natural wonder. The grant will enable Thymann to travel to Nepal, where he will document the field work of the Project Pressure team and the impact of glacial retreat on the local population. As well as imagery and video, Mother London will also utilize social media platforms and narrated slideshows to record his work.
SingTel has launched the Open Category of the “Home Without Walls” photo contest. The contest is open to all Singaporeans from today to 5 August, 2012; and has a top prize of S$2,500.
This contest is part of a series of activities under the “Home Without Walls” campaign.
Singaporeans are encouraged to submit up to 12 photo entries under the following four themes relating to precious family moments with various members that make up the family:
Father Figures (Fathers)
Grand for a Reason (Grandparents)
Mum’s the Word (Mothers)
Just Kidding (Children)
Participants are encouraged to share the story behind their photos by a caption of not more than 140 characters on what the photo represents.
The campaign aims to inspire Singaporeans to connect with their families and forge stronger bonds with their loved ones.
The Grand Prize winner for the Open Category contest will walk away with S$2,500, and the individual winners for each of the four category themes will enjoy S$500 in cash prize.
This photo contest is open to all Singaporeans and submission is done through the SingTel FaceBook page.
Photographs can be taken with any camera, including mobile devices. Selected entries will be collated into a set of limited edition postcards which will be distributed at a later stage.
Winning photographs from each category will be published by SingTel.
Judging panel
Mr Lim Soon Hock
– Chairman of National Family Council and the Centre for Fathering
Ms Daphne Ling
– Winner of the ‘Best Parenting Blog’ at the Singapore Blog Awards 2011
James Holman (Copywriter) and Nuno Teixeira (Art Director) from TBWA, Singapore has won the prestigious Young Lions Print Competition at the 2012 Cannes Lions advertising festival.
Winning entry from Singapore for the Young Lions Print Competition at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Second and third places go to United Arab Emirates and Belgium.
The Young Lions Competition is designed to catapult the careers of rising stars that are set to redefine the future use of imagery in advertising.
First runner-up from the United Arab Emirates.
The Young Lions Competition is being sponsored by Getty Images for the 15th consecutive year.
Getty Images was the exclusive content provider for the competitions, enabling contestants to draw from its broad range of creative, editorial, multimedia and archival collections.
This year’s brief, disclosed to competitors on 16 June, was set by Control Arms – a global civil society alliance campaigning for a “bulletproof” Arms Trade Treaty, founded by Oxfam.
The society disclosed a brief to raise awareness amongst State leaders and negotiators at the United Nations in the build up to the Arms Trade Treaty meetings in July of this year.
Second runner-up from Belgium.
41 teams, comprising of an Art Director and Copywriter under 28 years of age, had just 24 hours to interpret the brief and develop a print advertisement, using content sourced from Getty Images’ range of creative, editorial and archival collections.
The work was scrutinised by the Jury members, headed up by this year’s Cannes Lions Jury President, Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy & Mather.
Who is the most popular celebrity in the world? And which is the most popular sports team or film in the social space? starcount.com trawls 11 top social networks to bring you the vote of 1.5 billion fans.
www.starcount.com is the latest social aggregation site that was launched in Singapore last night. Check out the leaderboards of leading celebrities in the social space.
At the global launch of starcount in Singapore last night, guests invited to Pangaea in Marina Bay Sands checked their own favourites against what the social aggregation engine discovered in the social space on the Internet.
Here are the winners of the Social Star Awards 2012 for the various categories:
R&B Star
Rihana
Sportsperson
Christiano Ronaldo
Sportsteam
Barcelona FC
Game
Angry Birds
TV Show
The Simpsons
Film
Harry Potter
Film Star
Selena Gomez
Asian Star
Jackie Chan
Social Star
Ray William Johnston
Singapore
Stefanie Sun
Politician
Barack Obama
Almighty
Lady Gaga
As part of the inaugural Social Star Awards 2012, tweets were sent to the most popular personalities and entities on the social media scene from within starcount.com to congratulate them in winning the various categories.
Christiano Ronaldo pipped Lionel Messi to win the Sportsperson Award 2012, while “angry” Diablo 3 fans were disappointed that the Game Award 2012 went to Angry Birds.
Not surprisingly, Lady Gaga won the Almighty Award, as the most popular person on Earth – as at 31 May 2012. Coincidentally, she was performing live at her Born This Way concert in Marina Bay Sands.
Stefanie Sun was the most popular person in Singapore, while Jackie Chan was the most popular person in Asia and Hong Kong.
There were some surprises. Ray William Johnston, who won the Social Star Award, drew many blank looks from the guest present. The Film Star Award went to Selena Gomez. Perhaps thanks to her boyfriend?
You can check out your own genres and leaderboards on www.starcount.com.
SingTel has launched a photo contest aimed at the professional photography community – with a top prize of S$15,000. Submit online before 20 May 2012.
Win the grand prize of S$15,000 or one of four S$1,000 prizes for the four themes.
The contest is part of a series of activities under the “Home Without Walls” campaign.
Capture family moments in one of four themes.
The campaign is about inspiring Singaporeans to make real and meaningful connections with the people who matter, with the aim of creating homes where there are no communication barriers, and connect from the heart – whether online or offline.
For the moment, only the Professional Category of the contest has been launched – for professional photographers that earn more than 50% of their normal income from photography.
Photos must be taken after 20 March 2012 and, if possible, reflect a Singapore context.
Each participant may submit up to 12 entries.
There are four separate themes for photos: Attachments, Connections, Memories, and Networks.
A contest for the Open Category will be launched at a later date.
It will be open to all Singaporeans who enjoy the fulfilling journey of capturing candid and heartwarming family moments.
Details will be announced at a later date.
Participants must send in photo of family moments based on their own interpretations of the above themes.
The panel of judges comprises Derrick Heng from SingTel, as well as renowned photographers: Yumi Goto, Marc Prüst, and local photographer Tay Kay Chin.
The winner of each theme will win S$1,000 in cash, while a grand winner will take home S$15,000.
Out of 85 entries, Team AlphaWaves from Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore emerged the national champion of the Singapore Finals.
Their project was “Dementia Assistance and Recall Engine (DARE)” – a web-based digital scrapbook designed to capture and organize the past memories in a personalized digital format.
Team AlphaWaves from Nanyang Polytechnic is the Singapore Imagine Cup 2012 national champion. From left: Ziriad Saibi, Director, Platform and Developer Evangelism Group, Microsoft Singapore, Koh Kai Wei, Eustace Zheng Xiangwen, Nur Nadiah Binte Zailani, Mong Yunheng, Shen Yizhe, Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore. (Photo: Microsoft)
The aim of DARE, as part of reminiscence therapy, is to stimulate recall of past memories through photographs and other media (e.g. sound, video) that can be presented on a PC or tablet to remind the elderly and persons with dementia of their past and who they are.
“Technology empowers the individual to make the world accessible according to their own needs,” said Nur Nadiah Bte Zailani, Team AlphaWaves, champions of Singapore Imagine Cup 2012.The project was based on this year’s theme to “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”
More than 2700 students registered for this year’s Singapore competition. 16 teams met at the Semi-finals at *SCAPE, Level 4, GRID MMS yesterday to vie for four places in the Finals today.
“Built on Windows 8 and Windows Azure, DARE will have an active link to user’s brainwaves to analyze and make sense of their cognitive and mental abilities to help in stimulating their recall capabilities,” Zailani elaborated.Team AlphaWaves beat the other three finalists which comprised a team from Nanyang Technological University (1st Runners-up), a joint team from Temasek Polytechnic and Singapore Polytechnic (2nd Runners-up), and another team from Nanyang Polytechnic (3rd Runners-up).
All four finalists received prizes comprising Microsoft products which included Kinect Bundles.
Team AlphaWaves, however, won the only coveted slot to represent Singapore in the Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finals in Sydney in July.
16 Singaporean teams will meet in the Semi-finals of the Imagine Cup today – out of which four will enter the Finals tomorrow.
The winning team will get to represent Singapore at the global Imagine Cup finals in Sydney in July 2012.
Singapore’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship 2012
Microsoft Singapore is holding Campfire 2012 on today and tomorrow at *SCAPE, Level 4, GRID MMS. The Imagine Cup is the highlight of the two-day event.
Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s student technology and software competition which challenges students aged 16 and above to use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology to help solve global challenges and make a difference in the world.
Judging panel
Jessica Tan
(Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore)
Chew Mok Lee
(Group Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Spring Singapore)
Rob Miles
(Lecturer, Computer Science, University of Hull and Imagine Cup Worldwide judge)
Jeff Paine
(Partner, Golden Gate Ventures)
Chak Koon Soon
(President, Stream Global Pte. Ltd.)
Gwendolyn Tan
(Co-Founder SGEntrepreneurs/Partner of Thymos Capital)
Chia Woon Yee
(Director, Technology and Vocational Training, the Society of Physically Disabled Singapore)
Bernice Ang
(Founder, Syinc)
Initially branded as the Asia Pacific Student .NET Competition in 2001, the name of the competition was changed to “Imagine Cup” in 2003.
The tournament is held at the national and international levels. The Singapore chapter of the competition was held for the first time in 2003. The winners get to take part in the Worldwide Finals, which is traditionally held in a different country each year.
This year, students have been tasked to use technology to make a difference in the lives of people in their local communities and around the world, addressing issues in education, healthcare and environmental sustainability.
These projects include – eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
More than 2700 students registered for this year’s Singapore competition, resulting in more than 85 entries in the Software Design Category.
