Albert Einstein, a master at great ideas, once said:
âIf at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for itâ
When solving real product user problems one needs to have empathy, understand the need, and come up with creative, innovative ideas. This is where the concept of ideation, a critical step in the design thinking process, helps us to challenge assumptions, think outside the box, and explore uncharted territory. Â Ideation is where, as a community, we can explore and come up with as many ideas as possible. Some of these ideas will go on to be potential solutions and some will end up in the reject pile. At this stage though, the focus is on quantity of ideas rather than quality in order to uncover new angles, think âoutside the boxâ, and do this in a âjudgment-free zoneâ.
MindsDB has set-up an ideation challenge that will run on GitHub for the next 3 weeks from May 31, 2022 to Jun 19, 2022 for members of the community to generate, validate, and rate ideas for data source integrations and machine learning models. At the end of the submission and voting period we will award prizes for the top voted ideas:
To spark the innovation and creativity engine we'd like to suggest the SCAMPER method as an acronym to get you thinking âoutside-the-boxâ. Hereâs what each of the letters stand for:
To get started -> visit the contestâs GitHub page for more information.
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