Go Code Colorado held events with over 900 participants across 5 locations. There were 31 teams that participated in the Challenge Weekend and were given $25,000 each for the top 3 teams. 176 datasets were published through the program. Successful open data applications and analytics use data in combination from multiple sources. The role of a data liaison is important to bridge the gap between data providers and end users by having knowledge of both worlds and helping with tasks like data interpretation and metadata. High quality data portals and catalogs have centralized, predictable, discoverable, non-redundant data with good documentation and metadata to help users understand what the data is, what it contains, how often it is updated and how it was created.