At tonight’s OpenGovHackNight – David Eads returns to the hack night to talk about his work on the Chicago Tribune Elections Website. He’ll go over their use of the new Reuters election data service and how they integrated the content into print. You can follow along with David with his slide deck here.
Our coverage begins at 6:15pm Chicago-time.
Today the State of Illinois announced the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Challenge – an Illinois Department of Public Health Challenge designed to highlight the availability and benefit of Open Health Data from government agencies. The challenge was part of a two-day Illinois Public Health Datapalooza event focused on developing and sharing innovative ways to work with open health data in an effort to drive innovation and create better health outcomes in Illinois and in cities and states across the country.
On April 1st, David Eads from the Chicago Tribune’s Tribapps Team presented their Election Center Site at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. You can see all of Eads’ slides here.
Governor Pat Quinn has declared April 3rd to be Illinois Innovation Day. Christopher Whitaker, consultant to Smart Chicago, will be representing us in Springfield tomorrow. Here’s a look at the work that Smart Chicago Collaborative has done at the state level.
