Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Google Offers $5,000 for Best Tax Infographic

Deliberate you’re decent at creating info graphics? Before you may hunger to enter Google’s modern contest.


Google is proposing a top reward of $5,000 for its Statistics Viz Experiment, a challenge to see who can proposal the best conception of data about where your tax cash goes. The challenge, publicized on Google’s Official Blog today, is based on a website called whatwepayfor.com, which was created by a team of developers: Andrew Johnson and Lewis Garcia.

Overwhelmed with the pair’s spot, Google engineers derived up with their own “shared data conception” or info graphic:


But the corporation confesses that its info graphic has its borders. So, Google has teamed up with not-for-profit art and expertise center Eyebeam for the experiment. To make things cooler, Johnson and Garcia have constructed an API to let any prospective developer entrance the data.

Those concerned can arrive the experiment at the site referenced beyond. The competition starts today and ends on March 27. The champion will be publicized on April 18, aka Tax Day.

Though Google isn’t a corporation that many folks comrade with advancements and competitions, this is the another such competition this month from the search hulk. Previous this month, Google used a alike raise to broadcast its wedding-planning spot.