Editor’s Note: Today, Smart Chicago Consultant and Brigade Regional Coordinator Christopher Whitaker will be giving a training on how to level up your civic hacking event. Christopher is one of the co-hosts of the nationally renowned Chicago OpenGov Hack Night as…
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Smart Chicago’s Sonja Marziano on Tech Shift talking School of Data
On Monday, Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Sonja Marziano appeared on WBEZ’s OpenTech Shift to talk about the this weekend’s Chicago School of Data event. You can listen to the whole interview here:
Narrative Science at OpenGov Hack Night
On September 9th, Dan Platt and Craig Booth from Narrative Science stopped by OpenGov Hack Night to talk about their Quill platform.
Updated Cook County Data Sets: Annual Salaries and Lobbyist Data
Here’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…
Smart Chicago’s Twitter Analytics
Twitter recently released the ability for anyone to be able to get access to Twitter’s analytics panel. So, we’d like to share ours.
New Livestream Equipment!
One of the things that is very important to us at Smart Chicago is documenting the work. Documenting the work enables us to share the things we’ve learned and to showcase the progress being made. For the Chicago School of…
