This week’s OpenGov Hack Night featured an app design workshop by the Knight Lab’s Miranda Mulligan. This design process doesn’t start with the latest data set, but instead starts with establishing empathy with the user. Everyone partners up for the…
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OpenGov Hack Night: Upcoming Events and Sustainable Data
There was no presentation at this week’s OpenGov Hack Night, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on. Here are a few events that are coming up! National Day of Civic Hacking: Save the date! On June 1st and…
Big Data Week: Video Analytics in the Wild Panel Livestream
Smart Chicago Collaborative will be live streaming Friday’s Big Data Week panel on Video Analytics in the wild. The panel will be discussing how video analytics is being used in a wide variety of places including public safety, retail, and…
OpenGov Hack Night: 1 Year Anniversary
Happy Birthday OpenGov Hack Night! This week was the one year anniversary of the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. The Year in Review (6:30) Some quick stats on what’s gone on in the past year. 48 Hack Nights 7 Data Potlucks…
Edit Your Neighborhood On OpenStreetMap
They’ll be two opportunities for residents to help improve OpenStreetMap. The first is an OpenStreetMap Mapathon designed to help new mappers learn OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is an open source map that anyone can edit. Users can add data to the map including information about their favorite restaurants, cultural…
Tonight’s Live-stream: Thoughtful Critiques of the Open Government Movement
Tonight, the OpenGov Chicago meeting will be live streamed on via Google Plus starting at 6:00pm. The international open government/ open data movement has a lot of momentum, especially here in Chicago. We’ve all worked hard to get us where we…
