Published in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Author Scott Chamberlain

Many US federal agencies are now running app competitions to highlight their web services (see here), and hopefully get people to build cool stuff using government data (see Data.gov for more). See here for a nice list of the US government’s web services. One of these agencies was the United States Geological Survey (USGS). They opened up an app competition and [we won best overall app!