[mjangle1985]

I participated in this bounty, it was a blast.

The team at Dolthub is great and extremely accessible on their discord. These bounties seem like a great use case for their tech.

If you're into git and data (like I am) then these bounties are just awesome.

[tinco]

So you acquired and preprocessed some data for them? How did they verify its correctness?

I agree this looks like a great enterprise.

[mjangle1985]

So data was accepted via pull requests.

The maintainer will review a PR and either accept the PR or ask you to modify it to better fit their requirements or reject it.

For example one of their requirements were no 0 vote rows. So that's a pretty simple SQL query on the database and can be checked before the maintainer does a merge.

All data was required to be sourced. I got most of my data from state and county websites so those links were included with the comments in the PR.

In addition I was in communication with the team via their discord so they would ask for changes to PRs from there also.

[shishy]

Interesting, thanks for sharing. So for the latest one where they have a bounty for assembling the largest healthcare dataset -- how do they determine who gets what portion of the bounty? It's not just winner takes all right?

This data looks cool too, I'll have a look in the Discord...

[mjangle1985]

It's divided based upon total additions to the final data set I believe. They have github repo for their bounty board that shows that calculation I think.

I think the final calculation is based on the percent you've added to the final dataset.

edit:

yeah here's the repo that calculates the final payment. https://github.com/dolthub/bounties

[hamburglar]

Do they require you to "show your work" or somehow demonstrate that your methodology is sound? Is there any requirement that it be repeatable (e.g. let's say they find a minor issue in data you sourced. If you were required to provide code that does the work, rather than just the data, it could be fixed and re-run).

I'm kind of fascinated by the process, but I am having a hard time figuring out how this can really work. It can't really be as simple as paying people to shove arbitrary data of unknown value in their dbs, can it?

[mjangle1985]

Join the discord and hit them with some questions. I'm sure they'll be happy to answer you.

[hamburglar]

Why not answer here? It’s an opportunity to generate more hacker interest. I’m probably not going to sign up for discord to ask one question.