U.S. Department of Labor

DOL Contests on Challenge.govOES & informACTION Application Contests

November 1, 2011

DOL Contests on Challenge.govDOL’s Use of Challenge.gov for Application Development

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DOL ran 2 application development contests on Challenge.gov that offered $35,000 in prizes for each contesto Occupational Employment Statistics

o informACTION

We provided the data, guidelines and requirements for development

The participant picked the technology:o the web

o a personal computer

o a mobile handheld device, or

o any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet

Customer Service Modernization ProgramWhat Developers Produced with our Data: 17 Applications

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DOL received 17 applications, resulting in 13 winners and total prize winnings of $68,000 for their innovative approach to using DOL data,

resulting in an average of $5,200 per winning application

Innovation of DOL Data

Value of Partnerships Between DOL & Developer Community

Customer Service Modernization ProgramWho Won Prizes? 13 Applications That Met Our Requirements

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OES Contest Award Application Name Location

1st Place Where Are The Jobs? Sacramento, CA

2nd Place OES Map Brooklyn, NY

3rd Place Labor Wage Statistics Chelsea, Michigan

Honorable Mention Occupation Wage Data Hinesville, Georgia

Honorable Mention Job Compass Atlanta, Georgia

People’s Choice Award Job Compass Atlanta, Georgia

informACTION Contest Award

Application Name Location

1st Place Eat Shop Sleep Alexandria, VA

2nd Place iCitizen Labor Report St. Louis, MO

3rd Place IC InfoChoice Sterling, VA

Honorable Mention Inspection Radar Arlington, TX

Honorable Mention DOL Connect Sunnyvale, CA

Honorable Mention What’s The Beef? Seattle, WA

Honorable Mention iDOL iPhone App Plainfield, IL

People’s Choice Award Job Tracker Washington, DC

Contest applications originated

from 9 States, including

Washington DC

DOL Contests on Challenge.govinformACTION 1st Place Winner: Eat Shop Sleep

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Features

iPhone/iPad accessible

Search restaurants, shops, and hotels near you

Access hotel/motel, restaurant and retail industry enforcement data and easily identify violators

Narrow your results by industry, health/labor violations, name search

Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses

DOL data is mixed with Yelp to check reviews of establishments with findings

DOL Contests on Challenge.govinformACTION 2nd Place Winner: iCitizen Report

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Features

iPhone/iPad accessible

Places findings from DOL WHD and OSHA into the hands of the public in an easy to use interface optimized for the mobile platform

Uses geo-coding to identify findings that are in close proximity - check before you choose to dine at a restaurant, or apply for a job at a establishment, or stay at a hotel

Allows the users to set criteria to narrow the focus of the findings, either via navigating graphically with a map view or by data points using a list view

DOL data is mixed with Yelp to check reviews of establishments with findings

DOL Contests on Challenge.govOES 1st Place Winner: Where Are The Jobs?

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Features

Allows users to interactively explore the salary and job statistics for various occupations at national, state and regional levels

Users can choose an occupation and explore the job market for that occupation, or they can start with a state or region and explore the top occupations within it

Provides context for the user by highlighting the geographic area, plotting the information on a graph for easy comparison and allowing the users to sort either by number of jobs or by salary

Provides information about the top industries providing employment in a given occupation

DOL Contests on Challenge.govOES 2nd Place Winner: OES Map

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Features

Provides an "at a glance" view of the different employment statistics such as wages (hourly and annual), total number of jobs, unemployment rates as well as location quotients on a map of the U.S

User can easily switch between occupation groups and drill down into the sub groups

Map is interactive and you can click on any state to reveal a scorecard about the individual state.

o Scorecard features detailed information about the states population, employment and unemployment numbers, the average wages and deviation from the U.S. average.

Lists the states top employers and an industry breakdown in percent