Today is the first Chicago OpenGov Hack Night of 2014! Benjamin Sugar will introduce us to CivicLab, a new space that has opened up in Chicago to encourage ‘civic making.’ He’ll also touch on the intersection of civic media and it’s relationship…
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White House Safety Datapalooza Resources
On January 14th, White House will be hosting the Safety Datapalooza. The event will focus on safety data resources in the areas of transportation, food, occupational and consumer product safety and disaster preparation and response. Chicago’s civic innovation community has…
Hack Night Live: Year in Review
For the last hack night of 2013, Christopher Whitaker and Derek Eder will showcase some open gov highlights from the past year. Live Stream starts at 6:15ish. Our presentation is below the fold:
Chicago’s Hidden Open Data
At this week’s hack night, Forest Gregg of DataMade gave a talk about Chicago’s hidden open data. While the civic innovation community has gotten used to going to data.cityofchicago.org for their open data needs, there’s a lot more data that’s not…
Hack Night Live: Chicago Open Data Hidden in Plain Sight
While our local governments continue to do an amazing job of publishing to their open data portals, many datasets still exist solely on obscure websites most of us don’t know about. Forest Gregg will talk about some of these lesser known, but highly…
Hack Night Live: Redeye’s Tracy Swartz talks Homicide Tracker
At tonight’s Chicago OpenGov Hack Night, the Redeye’s Tracy Swartz will be speaking about the RedEye’s Homicide Tracker and the data behind their efforts. We’ll be live streaming the talk live on this blog post at about 6:15pm just below:
