Announcing the winners of the 2022 AWS Data Exchange for APIs Challenge
By: Anurag Kadasne and Chelsea Ip | December 20th, 2022
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AWS Data Exchange for APIs Challenge winners
On October 10, 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. launched the 2022 AWS Data Exchange for APIs Challenge and offered participants a chance to win up to $35,000 in prizes. The hackathon ran for six weeks and featured APIs from the following data providers: Gatehouse Maritime, IMDb, Inca Digital, Luminate, People Data Labs, PredictHQ, ReArc, SimilarWeb and Ursa Space. Participants were asked to use their customer obsession, creativity and technical skills to build a mobile or web application that used at least one featured third-party API, in addition to any other services.
The three hackathon judges identified five projects that demonstrated quality technological implementation, high potential value to users and an inventive idea. The full list of project submissions can be found here.
The winners are:
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First place:
Jobby
Santhosh Jose
Santhosh built a rich-job tracking platform, by consolidating in-depth data from various sources including companies, jobs, and the labor market into a central source. Jobby leveraged the People Data Labs Company Insights Enrichment API, with the front-end hosted on Oracle Application Express (APEX) and back-end on Oracle Database. Along with developing an attractive visual interface, Santhosh built a custom signature process for signing AWS API calls in PL/SQL.
Watch the Jobby team's demo*: -
Second place:
Migrasie
Ferran Sulaiman, Varun Raghunathan
Migrasie is an interactive visualization tool that helps children, students or curious adults understand the migration of various species that take place on our planet. The application uses Ursa Space’s SAR Virtual Constellation API and allows users to view the migration sites of animals from space. The team leveraged IMDb’s Essential Metadata API to recommend documentaries based on the user’s animals of interest.
Watch the Migrasie team's demo*: -
Third place:
Chain Reaction
Caitlin Turnidge, Mo
Chain Reaction is a movie-actor linking game. Players must name an actor in a film, and then subsequently name another film with that actor in it. The goal is for players to create the longest movie-actor chain. They built the application using IMDb’s Essential Metadata API, TypeScript, NextJS, React, TailWindCSS and Apollo Client. The application is deployed to an AWS Lambda@Edge which helps reduce latency for players of the game.
Watch the Chain Reaction team's demo*: -
Honorable mention:
ConstantConstant provides an easy-to-use interface for users to search through the map interface for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images based on geo-locations and timestamps. Powered by Ursa Space’s SAR Virtual Constellation API, users can scan through the world's largest network of commercial SAR satellites (archive of over 10 million images and 14 years of history)
Watch the Constant team's demo*:This project provides relevant datasets from an open-source economics datasets portal, helping researchers and learners put their theoretical knowledge to practice. The team used ReArc’s DBNomics API to build data sets, Django for APIs to build a research insights sharing portal and ChartJS for visualizations.
The winners are:
First place:
Jobby
Santhosh Jose
Santhosh built a rich-job tracking platform, by consolidating in-depth data from various sources including companies, jobs, and the labor market into a central source. Jobby leveraged the People Data Labs Company Insights Enrichment API, with the front-end hosted on Oracle Application Express (APEX) and back-end on Oracle Database. Along with developing an attractive visual interface, Santhosh built a custom signature process for signing AWS API calls in PL/SQL.
Second place:
Migrasie
Ferran Sulaiman, Varun Raghunathan
Migrasie is an interactive visualization tool that helps children, students or curious adults understand the migration of various species that take place on our planet. The application uses Ursa Space’s SAR Virtual Constellation API and allows users to view the migration sites of animals from space. The team leveraged IMDb’s Essential Metadata API to recommend documentaries based on the user’s animals of interest.
Third place:
Chain Reaction
Caitlin Turnidge, Mo
Chain Reaction is a movie-actor linking game. Players must name an actor in a film, and then subsequently name another film with that actor in it. The goal is for players to create the longest movie-actor chain. They built the application using IMDb’s Essential Metadata API, TypeScript, NextJS, React, TailWindCSS and Apollo Client. The application is deployed to an AWS Lambda@Edge which helps reduce latency for players of the game.
Honorable mention:
Constant provides an easy-to-use interface for users to search through the map interface for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images based on geo-locations and timestamps. Powered by Ursa Space’s SAR Virtual Constellation API, users can scan through the world's largest network of commercial SAR satellites (archive of over 10 million images and 14 years of history)
This project provides relevant datasets from an open-source economics datasets portal, helping researchers and learners put their theoretical knowledge to practice. The team used ReArc’s DBNomics API to build data sets, Django for APIs to build a research insights sharing portal and ChartJS for visualizations.
Congratulations to the winners and to all the participants for their creative work.
For questions on submissions in the hackathon, please contact the project owner through the project gallery on Devpost.
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Anurag Kadasne is a Senior Product Manager at AWS based out of New York City, New York. Before joining AWS, he spent 7 years in various roles in the financial services industry. Outside of work he enjoys sports, traveling and music.
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