Chicago Crime Hack — LOOP

Northwestern University Knight Lab (http://knightlab.northwestern.edu/site/) and The Chicago Tribune News Applications (https://twitter.com/tribapps) team would like to invite you to spend the day with us, hacking on civic data. We’ll be available to help out with using the API, coaching and other technical consulting.

The city of Chicago has published extensive crime data, which is the basis of the Tribune’s “Crime in Chicago” portal (Crime.ChicagoTribune.com (http://www.Crime.ChicagoTribune.com)). The TribApps team recently added an API, which makes it even easier to build your own projects with the city’s data.

If you’re an experienced civic hacker or have done open gov data analysis, consider giving a 5-minute “lightning talk” to share your work with folks at the event. Lightning talks are casual and fun so don't be shy!

UPDATED SCHEDULE
11-11:30 am — Introductions from attendees, agenda, About Chicago crime data, quick introduction to City data portal, Trib Apps crime API, etc.
11:30-12pm — Lightning talks (four 5-minute talks)
12-12:15 — Brainstorm tracks, deputize track leaders
12:15-12:30 — Group discussion
12:30-1:30 — Lunch!
1:30-4:30 — HACK!
4:30-4:45 — Report backs/show and tell
4:45-5 — Closing circle
5-7 — KEEP HACKING (or take off, hang out, provide feedback, etc.)

RESOURCE
The Chicago Tribune News Applications (https://twitter.com/tribapps) team has released the API and a sample app. Read the blog post (http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2013/03/22/announcing-the-chicago-crime-api/) or visit the Github repo (https://github.com/newsapps/chicagocrime).

FOOD
http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/a/3/e/event_216683102.jpegWe'd like to thank our sponsor, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews (http://www.mozillaopennews.org/) for sponsoring our lunch, light snacks and beverages.

OpenNews sponsors hack days (http://www.mozillaopennews.org/hackdays.html) around the world to write code that helps to solve real-world journalistic problems. Also, be sure to check out Source (http://source.mozillaopennews.org/), a resource for spotlighting the community that is writing code for journalism.

UPCOMING
If you can't make it on March 23, check out the next Chicago Crime Hacks on April 6 in Evanston (https://www.meetup.com/Knight-Lab-Events/events/107731782/) or April 13 in Pilsen (https://www.meetup.com/Knight-Lab-Events/events/107733182/).