Year: 2014

Updated Cook County Data Sets: Annual Salaries and Lobbyist Data

Christopher Whitaker

328px-Seal_of_Cook_County,_Illinois.svgHere’s a quick update on some new data sets released by Cook County. The first set is the annual salaries and lobbyist data for Cook County.

Previously, Lobbyist Activity was one of two datasets from the Clerk’s office that had been updating automatically for the past couple years. At some point the Lobbyist Activity script broke and it started updating the dataset with blank rows. Josh Kalov brought the updating issue to the attention of the Clerk’s IT staff, the team had a call with the consultants about the update script. They ended up rewriting the script with SODA2 (Socrata’s API) and Kalov has been monitoring the dataset to see if it updates correctly. So far, the dataset has been updating normally.

CivicWorks Project Extended

Smart Chicago

Big update on our CivicWorks Project— it has been extended and we’re getting lots more work done.

Free Geek Chicago Launch of Crime and Punishment Website

The Civic Works Project (formerly known as the Civic Innovation in Chicago project) is program funded by the Knight Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust to spur support civic innovation in Chicago. The program’s original goal was to produce 200 content pieces, 5 apps that solve government problems, and 5 apps that solve community problems. We also ran the Illinois OpenTech Challenge through the grant as well.

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Divvy & Solowheel

Lissette Lagunas

At Open Gov Hack Night in the Transportation group the update on divvy was a new graph, more wants as to bringing Ventra and Divvy together, and the Solowheel. Open Gov is located on the 12th floor in the Merchandise Mart building. The hours start at 6 pm till 10 pm. Different topics are discussed and everyone and anyone is welcome.

Ben is trying to figure out how many people are upset by bikes and docks unavailability, in doing so he made his attempt to try and create a graph for the group to study on the Divvy docks.Link to Graphs . The database of dockings and checkouts by station and what time of the day they occurred is not recent rather on the first Divvy data dump. Continue reading →