As part of the kickoff to National Day of Civic Hacking, Christopher Whitaker spoke at the OpenGov Hack Night on May 27th, 2014 about the progress that’s been made since last year’s event. Opening the data Over the past year, there’s been a…
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Free your PDFs! Introduction to Tabula with Manuel Aristarán
In preparation for National Day of Civic Hacking, we wanted to show off a tool that helps liberate table data from PDFs called Tabula. Tabula is an open source tool built by Manuel Aristarán with the help of ProPublica, La Nación DATA and Knight-Mozilla OpenNews. We sat…
LoveLand helps map out Detroit’s vacant properties
On May 20th, Detroit civic startup Loveland Technologies presented at OpenGov Hack Night. Loveland is a company that helps governments, nonprofits, and community organizers to gather and present public information about properties. Through their work, they’ve been able to map out every…
City of Chicago launches status blog for data.cityofchicago.org
Last week, the City of Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology launched a their Tumblr Status Blog to let users of the city data portal know about downtime and technical changes made to the the data portal. The team at…
CivicArtworks Helps City Planners Get Community Feedback Through Software
On May 13th, civic startup CivicArtworks presented at OpenGov Hack Night. CivicArtworks is a tool to help city planners get feedback from residents during the planning phase of major projects.
Video Interview with Joe Olson of Foodborne Chicago
Foodborne Chicago is a website that connects people who complain about food poisoning on Twitter to the people who can help them out— the Chicago Department of Public Health. This Smart Chicago Collaborative Project recently had it’s one year anniversary and…
