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Chicago Open Data Day 2017


Celebrate Open Data Day 2017 with us!

Do you have an ongoing project? Or are you just curious about local, state, or federal governmental data at any level? Then join us for the 2017 Open Data Day Hackathon on Saturday, March 4! No matter your background or interests, we need you to make open data community grow.

We will collect, visualize, and analyze data using different software tools (IPython, D3, R, Tableau, and others). The focus of this year will be on open research data, tracking public money flows, open data for environment, and open data for human rights.

We will have two special guests: Kathleen Lynch, Information Technology Communications Manager of Cook County Government and Josh Kalov, Consultant at Smart Chicago Collaborative. They will talk about the open data catalog and some software tools provided by the county government.

Thanks to SPARC-Science for providing a mini-grant during the hackathon.

The event is hosted by Research Computing Center at The University of Chicago.

Registration
This hackathon is open to the public, but please register before March 1, 2017. Space is limited. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-data-day-hackathon-chicago-tickets-31893984767

Location
5235 S. Harper Court Conference Room 602 Chicago, IL 60615

Date & Time
Saturday, March 4, 2017 10 AM - 5 PM

Agenda
9:30a - 10:00a   Welcome 10:00a - 10:30a  Unconference Brainstorming 10:30a - 10:45a  Kathleen Lynch, Information Technology Communications Manager of Cook County Government 10:45a -11:00a   Josh Kalov, Consultant at Smart Chicago Collaborative 11:00a - 12:30p  Seek, find, hack, and code 12:30p - 1:00p   Lunch 1:00p - 5:00p    Code, hack, visualize and prettify

1. Visualizing Open Data of Chicago

 * Teodora Szasz
 * Jaehyun Lee
 * Nora Medina
 * Rahul Subramanian
 * (feel free to add your name)

See the project description

2. Taxbrain Web Application
See the project description
 * Teodora Szasz
 * Richard Evans
 * Matt Jensen
 * (feel free to add your name)

3. Open Data and Virtual Reality

 * Luis Ibanez
 * Teodora Szasz
 * Nora Medina
 * (feel free to add your name)

See the project description

4. Reddit Data Visualizer

 * Anthony Fuentes

See the demo and source code

5. Computational methods for analyzing large amounts of genomic data

 * Hae Kyung Im
 * Milton Pividori

See: ImLab and Github repository

6. Exploring the data portal of Cook County

 * Josh Kalov
 * Kathleen Lynch
 * Teodora Szasz
 * (feel free to add your name)

See the project description

Register to our groups

 * Github organization: https://github.com/orgs/OpenDataDayChicago2017
 * Slack team: https://opendatadaychicago.slack.com

General Ideas

 * Open Data Wikipedia
 * City of Chicago Data Portal
 * data.world

Open Research Data

 * Resources offered by SPARC

Tracking Public Money flows

 * Open Contracting
 * Open Spending
 * 40 Recipes for Cooking Public Budgets

Environment theme

 * Sensor data from OpenSensors

Human Rights

 * LGBTQ rights

Cook County Open Data

 * Data Catalog Cook County

Visualization Tools

 * Viz Wit Tool

Participants

 * Adewale Olalekan Odusina
 * Allie D'Souza
 * Anthony Fuentes
 * Baixue Yao
 * Emily Coppess
 * Gourav Khullar
 * Graham Fetterman
 * Guoyu Zhou
 * Hae Im
 * Jaehyun Lee
 * Jay Ong
 * Jeffrey Huang
 * Jesus Roxas
 * Jianli Huang
 * Jing Li
 * Junjie Yao
 * Kevin Magnan
 * Luqiu Chen
 * Milan McGraw (2)
 * Milton Pividori
 * Nora Medina
 * Rahul Subramanian
 * Ravikiran Puttaraju
 * Sanjay Mohan
 * Ting Xiao

Remote Participants

 * Matt Jensen, Founder and Managing Director of the Open-Source Policy Center (OSPC).
 * Add your name here

Organization team

 * Giselle Requejo (Research Computing Center, UChicago)
 * Hossein Pourreza (Research Computing Center, UChicago)
 * Jeffrey Tharsen (Research Computing Center, UChicago)
 * Josh Kalov (Smart Chicago Collaborative)
 * Kathleen Lynch (Cook County Government)
 * Luis Ibanez (Google Inc., NYC)
 * Richard W. Evans (Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory, UChicago)
 * Richard Williams (Research Computing Center, UChicago)
 * Teodora Szasz (Research Computing Center, UChicago) (contact person)

Waiting list

 * Adam Bulow
 * Akihiro Kondo
 * Carissa Abrego-Collier
 * ChengYee Lim
 * Chris Konsur
 * Donald Woll
 * Hae Kyung Im
 * Jiamao Zheng
 * Robert Mcelherne
 * Sammi Dean
 * Wei Liang
 * Xiliang Lin
 * Zhiyin Shi