April 2018

UPDATES

• Event planning documentation

  • Might not be complete, but is in a usable format.

• Restaurant sustainability

  • Questionnaire?

    • Not finished, sustainability club and office are crazy busy

  • Russell made a web tool to explore the data

    • Feature to show non-expired licenses

    • Google Maps feature for address

    • Data deduped by phone address

    • Next steps: further “human filtering”

• Open Data Portal city meeting

  • The department is working on a learning management system for citizens.

  • One of the plans is for an open data curriculum aimed at allowing citizens to learn the basics about open data, and to learn how to use the open data portal.

  • Seminar series talk/workshop on the open data portal

    • Explore a question/questions that are answerable through the open data portal, document any difficulties members have with the queries

    • Time: sometime in May?

  • Have HM co-host Best Week Ever one-hour workshops on the Open Data Portal?

    • Taylor will contact the city about this.

  • Task: compile a laundry list of datasets available on the Open Data Portal

    • Look at how other cities use their data portals, as well.

  • HM Seminar series: Open Data Portal (May 26)

  • Best Week Ever - 28 - 3

• Post-event retrospective for the GitHub seminar

  • Suggestions: Have the event later, hold an optional lunch with the speaker

• Hackathon planning

  • Potential sponsor? (Sue)

    • Elevate Ventures

    • gavin.ferlic@elevateventures.com

  • Late August

  • Joint venture with Local Variables?

  • Full-stack JS development

MISCELLANEOUS

• Women in Engineering @ Notre Dame “Poverty Map” (Sue)

  • Get data from them?

• Have a day between meetings to just work on things (Russell)

  • Right between meetings?

• Animal Care and Control app? (Sue)

  • Issue: mayor won’t let them have their own site, people can’t find it buried within the city website

  • People could be able to use the app to report animal abuse

  • Jenn Gobel (head of Animal Care and Control)

TASKS FOR NEXT TIME

• Organize the Open Data Portal seminar for May 26th (Taylor)

• Get in touch with the city again for the Best Week Ever workshops (Taylor)

• Contact Gavin Ferlic about funding for the hackathon (Taylor)

• Look into a “work day” for restaurant sustainability data cleaning/Open data portal investigating (Taylor)

• Compile a list of data sets on the open data portal (unassigned)

• Look at other open data portals, see how the data is used (unassigned)