Monthly Meetup

As usual, this meeting will be an open lab time where we will work on projects. Come with ideas for projects, things you may have already started, or we'll try to match you up with an already existing project or idea.

This month we welcome Kelly Clausen, policy and data analyst at Hennepin County's Center of Innovation and Excellence to talk about the Center and Hennepin County's upcoming Geo:Code Accessibility Jam (http://geocodehcaccessibilityjam.eventbrite.com/?aff=otce) and Code-a-thon (http://geocodehc.eventbrite.com/?aff=otce).

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Kelly is passionate about telling the story of the data and enjoys bringing numbers and narrative together to provide meaningful analysis and insight for policy makers in her role as a principal planning analyst. Her areas of expertise include qualitative research, policy analysis and surveys, strategic funding development, grant writing, grant reporting and compliance. Kelly's background also includes GIS mapping, as well as experience working with Hennepin County business and census data, census promotion, and website design and testing. Kelly has worked in government, with non-profit organizations and in small business marketing research in the financial services industry.

Please comment below on any ideas or projects you might want to work on.

If you're looking for project ideas, checkout Adopt-A-Tree (https://github.com/ballPointPenguin/adopt-a-tree), the Northside Digital Innovation Alliance Digital Asset projects (Django Backend (https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/ndia-django) and Angular Frontend (https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/ndia-angular)), issues with the Open Twin Cities website (https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/opentwincities.github.com), or the Open Twin Cities Projects Page (http://opentwincities.org/projects).