Chicago Crime Hack — PILSEN

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!

*** SCHEDULE ***
9 am — Doors open, coffee and breakfast nosh
9:30 am — Welcome and introductions; Some presentations: Data model (Joe), Crime API (http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2013/03/22/announcing-the-chicago-crime-api/) (Heather), Backbone App (David); Brief demos and/or some project ideas
10:15 am — Design-thinking workshop inspired by the d.school's crash course (http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/), projects and ideas brainstorming (Miranda)

[NOTE: If you cannot join us by 10 a.m., please join us at lunch (or after) because of the way design-thinking workshop functions.]

Noon — Lunch, lightning talks and mingling
1 pm — HACK TIME!
4:30 pm — Report backs, show and tell, presentations and feedback
5 pm — Thanks!
6 pm — Drinks and light nosh at HonkyTonk BBQ (http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/events/113472982/) with Hacks/Hackers Chicago

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.