Data Potluck

SMART CHICAGO IS MOVING!!!

Kyla WilliamsSeptember 25, 2017

Good News!!! The Smart Chicago team is moving and now will be co-located with the City Digital Team at UI Labs. As such, our individual emails will be changing to:

Kyla Williams

Sonja Marziano

Denise Linn

Leslie Durr

Our new mailing address is 1415 N. Cherry Avenue Chicago, IL 60642 and general phone number is 312.281.6900.

Please check our website at smartchicagocollaborative.org or follow us on twitter @smartchicago for more updates.

We appreciate your patience during this time of transition.

Data Potluck Live! Excel, OpenRefine, and featured partner: NFTE

Christopher WhitakerApril 17, 2014

Tonight, join us for Data Potluck at the Chicago Community Trust!

Chicago Community Trust from the Hallway

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 heard of).

Data Potluck’s featured non-profit partner this month is the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). They’ll have some of their data to work with to learn tools, and staff along for us to learn about–and help brainstorm on–their data- and analytics-related challenges.

This *is* a potluck so bring your favorite food or beverage! Our live stream coverage will begin at 6:15!

Data Potluck: Charter School Data

Christopher WhitakerMarch 13, 2014

At the Data Potluck on March 13th, the crew went over Charter School Data and ran a brief demo of R and iPython.

Oh, did we forget to mention that Data Potluck is an actual potluck?

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Join us at the Trust tonight for Data Potluck: R for Statistical Analysis

Smart ChicagoMarch 11, 2014

Data Potluck is a monthly meetup that brings together data scientists together to work on ways to help nonprofits using data. These meetups are held at the Chicago Community Trust and features a potluck dinner.

Chicago Community Trust from the Hallway

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DataPotluck Data Tasting

Christopher WhitakerMarch 6, 2014

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 of data from a government agency or non-profit organization and figures out ways to make that data useful to the agency.