Tonight, join us for Data Potluck at the Chicago Community Trust! DataPotluck XII will continue their focus on hands-on workshopping of tools, focusing on Excel (everyone’s favorite workhorse) and OpenRefine (the coolest, free-est tool to clean data that you haven’t…
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Hack Night Live: Civic Works Project’s ACA Outreach App
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, Dominique Williams and Josh Kalov will present on the Affordable Care Act Outreach App built by Smart Chicago Collaborative for LISC-Chicago as part of the Civic Works Project. Our coverage begins tonight at 6:15!
Hack Night Live: Transit Future and LargeLots.org
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…
Hack Night Live: The Chicago Tribune Elections Website
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…
Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Winners
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…
David Eads & the Chicago Tribune Election Center Site
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.