The US Census Bureau collects a bounty of data about people in the United States. Tonight’s Open Gov Chicago meetup is all about learning more about how you can use this data. Our live stream (and live tweeting!) coverage will…
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Hack Night Live: Divvy Bike Winner Announcement
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, Divvy will be showing off the winning apps from the Divvy Data Challenge. We’ll be live streaming the demos starting about 6:15pm. Here’s Elliot Greenberger from Divvy and talking about the challenge at a previous hack night. Tune in…
Civic Innovation Toolkit: How to run a civic hackathon
The Smart Chicago Collaborative has helped to run several civic hackathons including last year’s National Day of Civic Hacking events in Chicago. To help with this year’s National Day of Civic Hacking, we wanted to post how we organize and…
Connect Chicago Live! 5 Slide Pitches on how to better Connect Chicago
In our last meetup, we asked you what you wanted to talk about! The idea of “collaboration” came up, and we want to make it happen. So, we’ll be live streaming 5 Slide Pitches below and keeping meeting notes here.…
OpenGov Hack Night: Zoning in Chicago
At the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night on March 18th, urban policy blogger Daniel Hertz talked about the downsides of low-density zoning in Chicago, and how he uses open zoning data to understand the built environment.
Hack Night Live: Zoning in Chicago
Urban policy blogger Daniel Hertz will talk about the downsides of low-density zoning in Chicago, and how he uses open zoning data to understand the built environment. Our live stream coverage will start at 6:15pm
