For the OpenGovHack Night for Tuesday March 11th, Chicago CIO Brenna Berman spoke about the city’s initiative to modernize IT procurement. This was the second time that the CIO has spoken to the civic technology community about the IT procurement…
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Connect Chicago Five Slide Pitch: Connection and Collaboration
In our last Connect Chicago Meetup, we asked you what you wanted to talk about! The idea of “collaboration” came up, and we want to make it happen. So in our next meetup on March 21st, we want to hear from you…
Data Potluck: Charter School Data
At the Data Potluck on March 13th, the crew went over Charter School Data and ran a brief demo of R and iPython.
Hack Night Live: CIO Brenna Berman talks Procurement
City of Chicago CIO Brenna Berman will host a Q&A session on technology procurement, similar to last month’s OpenGov Chicago meetup (here’s the meeting notes). The City is looking for ways to improve the procurement process and lower barriers to entry for small and medium…
OpenGov Hack Night: Apps that Advocate
During the OpenGov Hack Night on March 4th, the political lobbying group FWD.US presented on how they’re using digital tools to adovcate their goals to elected officials. FWD.US joins a number of efforts in the civic innovation community to use…
DataPotluck Data Tasting
Data Potluck is a meetup group run by Young-Jin Kim, Matt Gee, and Nicholas Mader that helps to connect the nonprofit and data science worlds. One of the features of the meetup is an exercise called Data Tasting where the group takes a set…
