Month: April 2014

Data Potluck Live! Excel, OpenRefine, and featured partner: NFTE

Christopher Whitaker

Tonight, join us for Data Potluck at the Chicago Community Trust!

Chicago Community Trust from the Hallway

DataPotluck XII will continue their focus on hands-on workshopping of tools, focusing on Excel (everyone’s favorite workhorse) and OpenRefine (the coolest, free-est tool to clean data that you haven’t heard of).

Data Potluck’s featured non-profit partner this month is the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). They’ll have some of their data to work with to learn tools, and staff along for us to learn about–and help brainstorm on–their data- and analytics-related challenges.

This *is* a potluck so bring your favorite food or beverage! Our live stream coverage will begin at 6:15!

Hack Night Live: Transit Future and LargeLots.org

Christopher Whitaker

At tonights (100th!) OpenGov Hack Night, we’ll have two speakers.

Ed Oser and Nick Doiron  will present Transit Future, a vision of an expanded Chicago public transportation system led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Active Transportation Alliancewith a visualization by Open City.

Demond Drummer from Teamwork Englewood will talk about LargeLots.org, an app built by DataMade and LISC Chicago for navigating the City’s program for selling vacant lots on the South Side for $1.

Our live coverage and live stream will start at 6:15pm

On the launch of Crime and Punishment in Chicago

Smart Chicago

Smart Chicago Collaborative is proud to launch our latest Civic Works Project: Crime and Punishment in Chicago. This project is a collaborative effort among Smart Chicago, FreeGeekChicago, and the Chicago Justice Project.

Chicago Police Department Memorial at Buckingham Fountain

Photo by Chris Smith / Flikr

The Crime and Punishment in Chicago project provides an index of data sources regarding the criminal justice system in Chicago. We aggregate sources of data, how this data is generated, how to get it, and what data is unavailable. This project is a key way we are using the Civic Works grant to use data journalism to uncover the value of data and cover the stories behind the data.

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