ALBANY2013

Albany Open Data Day 2013
Albany, New York is participating in the 2013 Open Data Day Hackathon.

This will be the region's first open data day hackathon. The efforts this year will focus on finding, surfacing, and consuming government data from any level (local, state, federal).

You don't need any particular skills to contribute to or benefit from this hackathon. Not all data will be exposed through an API or in a machine-readable format so skills in searching for data, parsing it, and constructing data stores (relational or document databases) are useful in addition to pure coding chops. UI/UX people can contribute with presenting and visualizing data, but it is conceivable that many efforts started on the day may not reach this stage.

Some attendees may arrive with projects underway and looking for input and assistance from others, and others will turn up just looking for new ideas of what to build. All are welcome.

Open Source Tools
Open Source Tools for Data gathering, analysis, visualization will be presented in the form of "Training Tables". That is, people with skills on the use of these tools will be available to train attendees to the hack day.


 * Github Repository: https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/OpenDataDayAlbany2013
 * Coordination Document: https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1cl65_HU9Gtl7tZL2C3cb6_CcKsJOtsbq5VTWdjCJMyQ/edit

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 * https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1cl65_HU9Gtl7tZL2C3cb6_CcKsJOtsbq5VTWdjCJMyQ/edit#

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Location
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=suny+albany&aq=&sll=42.789636,-73.817817&sspn=0.436373,1.056747&vpsrc=6&ie=UTF8&hq=suny+albany&hnear=&radius=15000&ll=42.684604,-73.825523&spn=0.003415,0.008256&t=m&z=18&cid=5859484849796822978&iwloc=A
 * SUNY Albany Campus
 * Room : SL G012
 * Science Library Building
 * http://www.albany.edu/map/index.php
 * MAP:

Time
9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Agenda
9:30a - 10:00a  Welcome 10:00a - 10:30a Unconference Brainstorming 10:30a - 12:30p Seek, find, hack, and code 12:30p - 1:00p  Lunch 1:00p - 5:00p	 Code, hack, visualize and prettify

SPARQL Queries
https://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/SPARQL/LessonQuery.html#queries

SPARQL End Points
http://www.w3.org/wiki/SparqlEndpoints

Open Science Course
* http://opensource.com/education/13/2/hackathon-event-open-science

Get Social

 * Twitter:
 * http://twitter.com/search?q=opendata
 * Hash:  #OpenData
 * Facebook: Event Page
 * https://www.facebook.com/events/241918582612068

People

 * Dima Kassab
 * Catherine Dumas
 * Luis Ibanez @luisibanez (organizer)