Django Jail Hack

In cahoots with FreeGeek Chicago (http://freegeekchicago.org/)

A workshop focusing on fundamental data journalism and web development skills using the Supreme Chi-Town Coding Crew (https://github.com/sc3/sc3)'s Cook County Jail API (https://github.com/sc3/cookcountyjail)—a Django-based web API that provides data about inmates in Cook County Jail by scraping for the Sheriff's Inmate Locator.

All skill levels welcome

Mini-projects include:

• drawing the jail's floorplan

• analysing data

• improving the scraper

• project architecture & documentation

• front end data viz and user experience

• mining the data for leads.

Full details and agenda on the hackpad (https://hackpad.com/Django-Jail-Hack-jxgoZ2nkea8): https://hackpad.com/Django-Jail-Hack-jxgoZ2nkea8