SF2013

Urban Data Challenge! EcoHackSF! Both on Feb. 23, mere blocks from each other. Choose your poison:

EcoHackSF is about hacking for the environment. Lots of data, maps and ... science!

Urban Data Challenge is about transportation - bikes! Cars! Buses! Trams! Lots of data. Analysis. You know you'll love it.

Full details below.

Urban Data Challenge
What’s the heartbeat of your city? Does data make your pulse race?

Buses, trams, bicycles, pedestrians, and cars zoom about modern cities like blood pulsing through the body. But with urban growth comes challenges—one of them is how to improve transportation. Luckily, advances in technology combined with active open data and open source movements mean the citizenry can increasingly become part of the solution. Unclog the arteries, stimulate circulation.

The Urban Data Challenge seeks to harvest the innovative and creative power of communities around the world to explore urban data sets through visualization.

Designers, programmers, data scientists, and artists alike are invited to take up the challenge: merge and compare mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich—and draw meaningful insights. Winning projects will showcase the power of open governmental data and facilitate the knowledge exchange between cities. Juried prizes include round-trip airfare to one of the participating cities and funding from Fusepool, the European / Swiss Datapool, for developing the project into an app.

The Urban Data Challenge hackathon will take place on Feb. 23, as part of a partnership between Swissnex San Francisco, The Lift Conference, Opendata.ch and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

Location

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is hosting the hack at their office at 923 Market Street, Suite 200 in San Francisco.

Date/time

Saturday, Feb. 23 from 10:00am - 9:00PM, including 3 meals.

Signup

Sign up for updates here.

EcoHackSF
EcoHackSF is happening Feb. 22-23, and since so much environmental work depends on open data, we want to invite people from Open Data Day to join us! Full details are available at EcoHackSF.org, but here are some basic details:


 * Location

Climate Corporation is hosting at their office at 3rd and Howard in San Francisco.


 * Date/time
 * Friday, Feb. 22 at 6pm - Ignite talks
 * Saturday, Feb. 23 at 9:30am - come back for hacking!

Submit your hack idea at EcoHackSF.org.
 * Projects

You must sign up so that your name is on the list for security. Sign up at EcoHackSF.org
 * Signup

Follow @EcoHackSF for details, or get in touch with @robinkraft.
 * Contact