Hi Hacker News,<p>CEO of DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com) here. We are running a contest on DoltHub to gather and clean US Presidential Election precinct-level results. The prize pool is $25,000. The prize will be divided up in February based on number of cells added to the database, last edit of a single cell wins.<p>This kind of contest is possible because Dolt (https://www.doltdb.com) is a database with Git-style version control. It's the only SQL database you can branch and merge allowing hundreds of people to collaboratively edit.<p>For more information and some hints about how to get started, check out:<p>https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-12-14-make-money-data-wrangling/<p>We're looking forward to this community's contributions.
Last edit wins? For $25,000, I might edit every single cell, then put them all back, just before the deadline, and take all the money.<p>Also, the election was highly political. (I mean, even more than a regular election.) You're going to need to take some steps, not just against <i>financial</i> cheating (my first paragraph), but against <i>political</i> cheating (falsified results).<p>Sorry to be a downer, but I think you're going to need to solve these issues to have a viable project.