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All posts by Christopher Whitaker

Chicago CIO Brenna Berman Talks Procurement at OpenGov Hack Night

Christopher WhitakerMarch 17, 2014

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

Christopher WhitakerMarch 15, 2014

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…

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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.

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Hack Night Live: CIO Brenna Berman talks Procurement

Christopher WhitakerMarch 11, 2014

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…

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OpenGov Hack Night: Apps that Advocate

Christopher WhitakerMarch 9, 2014

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…

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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…

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Youth-Led Tech Curriculum: 28 Days of step-by-step for tech training in the context of the needs & priorities of young people.

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