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?
