Open Analytics - 1. World Cup
MetricsDAO seeks to broadcast not only on-chain data, but also freely available open-source data. This includes everything from data on sports, to traditional finance, to weather and climate, and more. This week, we want you to submit a deep dive dashboard that explores a specific topic of your choice in detail using data from the recently concluded World Cup.
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You can find queryable data on the World Cup at many sources, including here, here, and here.
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Open Analytics (OA) bounties are bounties without specific prompts, just a direction and a reward. It’s your chance to have your brain follow your heart — got a spark of interest, or a loose thread, or a weirdly-specific question gnawing at the back of your mind? Follow it as far as you can!
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How do you raise your dashboard score?
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The more (accurate) detail and the higher quality your dashboard (organization, method documentation, readability), The more accurate, detailed and the higher quality your dashboard (presentation, methodology, documentation, readability), the better your chances of scoring well. Here are a few rules of thumb for Open Analytics bounties:
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DO:
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- Give your dashboard a specific and relevant title
- Go deep into a topic and find creative/unusual data or paradigms
- Find macro and/or micro trends within a particular group or platform
- Ask weirdly-specific questions
- Consider trends, news and hot topics of the past day(s), week(s), month(s)
- Consider what info the platform’s core team and users would find valuable
- Organize your dashboard so it’s easy to read through
- Explain your methods clearly and check for mistakes (grammatical or statistical)
- Consider what media (text/visual) and chart types best fit a certain metric/data point
- Tweet your dashboard and/or make a thread about conclusions you may draw.
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DON’T:
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- Submit a dashboard with a generalized title like "Open Analytics Dashboard"
- Make an overview/surface-level dashboard
- Chart only basic data (# of transactions, users, validators, etc) Include inaccurate or false information
- Copy other peoples’ work
- Double-dip (submit a dashboard you’ve already submitted for any bounty program).
- Re-submit prior work with only minimal updates.