Year: 2014

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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Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Winners

Christopher Whitaker

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.

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