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Contact: "Dong Fang (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)" <dfang14@bloomberg.net> | Contact: "Dong Fang (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)" <dfang14@bloomberg.net> | ||
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When planning and developing projects, it is often necessary to brainstorm and conceptualise ideas across multiple locations. You will create an application to allow us to share free-form content in a whiteboard format, with multiple users able to update the board simultaneously. This should be available on both desktops and mobile devices. The key challenge will be ensuring that updates from multiple users are handled elegantly. Additions and edits may want to be displayed differently. These problems should be carefully considered with attention given to the user experience. | When planning and developing projects, it is often necessary to brainstorm and conceptualise ideas across multiple locations. You will create an application to allow us to share free-form content in a whiteboard format, with multiple users able to update the board simultaneously. This should be available on both desktops and mobile devices. The key challenge will be ensuring that updates from multiple users are handled elegantly. Additions and edits may want to be displayed differently. These problems should be carefully considered with attention given to the user experience. | ||
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The Interactive Freeform Board idea is quite similar to projects that we’ve done in the past, but boards like this are now distributed around our building, so it’s no longer quite as interesting as it has been. We did use a large multi-user touchscreen for a project like this last year, but that was with a client that loaned special hardware to make it more interesting. | |||
Project 3: I am also thinking about a third project, for those more financially-minded. Bloomberg has created an open-API (http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api), which offers easy access to financial market data, and we have hosted a few hackathons using this api. I'm trying to come up with a cool project involving using this api. From your experience, do you think this may be something the students will enjoy? | Project 3: I am also thinking about a third project, for those more financially-minded. Bloomberg has created an open-API (http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api), which offers easy access to financial market data, and we have hosted a few hackathons using this api. I'm trying to come up with a cool project involving using this api. From your experience, do you think this may be something the students will enjoy? | ||
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We could certainly consider this, although I see that the documentation is several hundred pages – we usually try to minimise the amount of time devoted to learning specific development tools, given the short duration of the projects. However, you said that this API has successfully been used in hackathons in the past? Were these one day events? If so, could you give some examples of the kinds of app that resulted from them? | |||
Revision as of 10:01, 30 September 2014
Contact: "Dong Fang (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)" <dfang14@bloomberg.net>
Confirmed: Audio Websites on Smartphones
Other suggestions
Project 1: An Interactive, Freeform Board
When planning and developing projects, it is often necessary to brainstorm and conceptualise ideas across multiple locations. You will create an application to allow us to share free-form content in a whiteboard format, with multiple users able to update the board simultaneously. This should be available on both desktops and mobile devices. The key challenge will be ensuring that updates from multiple users are handled elegantly. Additions and edits may want to be displayed differently. These problems should be carefully considered with attention given to the user experience.
Feedback:
The Interactive Freeform Board idea is quite similar to projects that we’ve done in the past, but boards like this are now distributed around our building, so it’s no longer quite as interesting as it has been. We did use a large multi-user touchscreen for a project like this last year, but that was with a client that loaned special hardware to make it more interesting.
Project 3: I am also thinking about a third project, for those more financially-minded. Bloomberg has created an open-API (http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api), which offers easy access to financial market data, and we have hosted a few hackathons using this api. I'm trying to come up with a cool project involving using this api. From your experience, do you think this may be something the students will enjoy?
Feedback:
We could certainly consider this, although I see that the documentation is several hundred pages – we usually try to minimise the amount of time devoted to learning specific development tools, given the short duration of the projects. However, you said that this API has successfully been used in hackathons in the past? Were these one day events? If so, could you give some examples of the kinds of app that resulted from them?
