This is a weekly feature that will highlight what’s happening at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. The Chicago OpenGov Hack Nights are weekly events where technologists and community members come together to work with open data and build tools that…
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The Moxie Awards add Best Civic App category
Building civic apps is hard work. There’s data that has to be cleaned up, code to be written, and a host of other problem solving issues that are unique to apps that take on civic challenges. Often, these apps are…
Transit Night at the OpenGov Hack Night
At this week’s OpenGov Hack Night, we had presentations from Ed Zotti and Joe Iacobucci about transit and data in Chicago. Joe Iacobucci is a Chicago transit enthusiast and gave a presentation on the link between public transit and economic…
Schoolcuts.org: Open Data and Civil Discourse
Last week, Chicago Public Schools announced that it was closing 61 schools due to budget constraints. Even before the list was announced, the plan to shut down schools was and still is generating lots of heated debate. CPS has released…
Data Potluck: 7 Million Rows of Data
There were a lot of people at this week’s data potluck Data Potluck is a monthly event occurring the last Tuesday of every month at 6:00pm inside 1871. Like the OpenGov Hack nights, these events focus on how open data…
OpenGov Hack Night: News Challenge Submissions and Mote.0.Bike
This is a weekly feature that will highlight what’s happening at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. The Chicago OpenGov Hack Nights are weekly events where technologists and community members come together to work with open data and build tools that…
