On September 9th, Dan Platt and Craig Booth from Narrative Science stopped by OpenGov Hack Night to talk about their Quill platform.
Chi Hack Night
Chi Hack Night t is Chicago’s weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech. Smart Chicago livestreams this event and writes up blog posts about the presentations on a regular basis.
Divvy & Solowheel
At Open Gov Hack Night in the Transportation group the update on divvy was a new graph, more wants as to bringing Ventra and Divvy together, and the Solowheel. Open Gov is located on the 12th floor in the Merchandise Mart building. The hours start at 6 pm till 10 pm. Different topics are discussed and everyone and anyone is welcome.
Ben is trying to figure out how many people are upset by bikes and docks unavailability, in doing so he made his attempt to try and create a graph for the group to study on the Divvy docks.Link to Graphs . The database of dockings and checkouts by station and what time of the day they occurred is not recent rather on the first Divvy data dump. Continue reading
Chicago Tribune Red Light Investigation at OpenGov Hack Night
On August 26th, the Alex Bordens and Alex Richards from the TribApps team talked about how the Tribune analyzed more than 4 million tickets and created an interactive database to help readers find out if they were ticketed during a spike.
Chicago Red Light Camera, photo by Flickr user Tripp
The Chicago Tribune recently found that the City’s red light camera program may have been ticketing thousands of drivers unfairly during suspicious spikes
Tonight! Chicago Tribune’s Red Light Camera Ticket Investigation Data
Tonight on our YouTube Channel, we’ll be live streaming tonight’s Chicago OpenGov Hack Night about the date behind the Chicago Tribune’s Red Light Camera Ticket investigation.
We’ll start our live stream at about 6:15pm tonight.
Divvy Savvy at Open Gov Hack Night
This is a guest post from our igniTech intern, Lissette Lagunas, who is joining us for the summer. Lissette will be writing about the different breakout groups at hack night, starting with Transportation.
How many of you use Divvy as your means of transportation? How many riders have ever had the issue of stations being empty when you need it or full when you want to return it? At Open Gov Hack Night, the Transportation Breakout Group discussed these issues to find solutions for smooth riding. Open Gov Hack Night happens every Tuesday starting at 6 pm at 1871, located on the 12th floor at 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza.
Environmental Group at OpenGov Hack Night
This summer, Smart Chicago Collaborative is participating in the IgniteTech Summer Program. Smart Chicago Interns Jessica Waller and Lissette Lagunas will be attending the OpenGov Hack Nights and writing about the different breakout groups. – Dan O’Neil
Environmental Group at OpenGov Hack Night
Many people already in the technology industry or wanting to join the industry come together for a presentation and a breakout group every Tuesday night from 6pm to 8pm at the Merchandise Mart plaza in downtown Chicago, Illinois. This group is all about the environment ,things that happen in the environment and the different cause and effects done in the environment.
Environment Group-Scott Beslow
Breaking Out
At the end of hack night presentations, people break out into different groups to work. Scott Beslow leads these sessions but everybody has a part. Anybody can join this group but they have to be willing to consistently show up to the group. Environmentalists must have the will power due to always having a task to do. The group does insists on everybody joining the group to at least get an idea of how you are able to help the City of Chicago.
Running the Training
Environmentalists get started by introducing themselves by their names and what they feel needs fixed in the Environment. Everybody has the free will to talk, give their own inputs and ask questions. Here is one resource that Scott Beslow gave out several times to the Environment Group it is called the NOAA quality controlled local climate data base.
What the Environment group learned this week
This week during the session, the Group updated all new-comers on what exactly the Environment group does and what it stands for and believes in. Scott Beslow explains that there are separate programs in the group that are currently in progress. The newest of the 2 projects is the Recycling Program, this program attracts many people but unfortunately it is so organized that new-comers have nowhere to go. Everybody has a task in the recycling program. On the other hand, the Sewage Program, the oldest of the 2 programs, always has places for new-comers to go.Many people are looking forward to going back to OpenGov Hacknight and joining the Environment Group and finding out what they plan to do and what they have already achieved in doing to better the City of Chicago and its Environment.
To get involved
If you would like to join us for a way to communicate with others and learn new ways of advancing your experience in cleaning up the environment and City of Chicago in many different ways, please check out our website for a way to sign up. The Environment Group will be looking forward to seeing you.
