Open City's Projects
Aquahack 2017
An app for finding when and where your next CAPS meeting is
How does policy get made in Chicago?
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An open data, open government, and open source project intended to improve the transparency of interactions between the City of Chicago, lobbyists and their clients.
A tool to track the status of the City of Chicago Plow Tracker
Is there sewage in the Chicago River?
Extend the Code for America's Open 311 wrapper to allow for non Open 311 requests
A list of people who come to the hack night and their skills according to LinkedIn
The City of Chicago launched Plow Tracker, an app that tracks the city's snow plows in real time. This app uses the same data. By knowing where the plows are, we've figured which streets have been plowed.
Clustering Ad Buys
Areas based on contact cards
Analyses of Chicago City Council
DEPRECATED, replaced by https://github.com/datamade/chi-councilmatic
In Chicago, a student's chance of getting into the city's top, selective schools depends on where he or she lives. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) places every part of the city into one of four socio-economic "tiers" and requires selective schools to reserve the same number of spots for the students from each tier. This tool helps you find what CPS tier you are in.
A data visualization that lets you explore crime trends in Chicago's 50 wards. Built using open crime report data from the Chicago Police Department.
Maps of Chicago's built environment. Data is from the Edifice building database.
TileMill projects for Edifice maps.
Simple Fusion Table and Map Integration
Simple javascript file for adding Google Analytics to a site. Includes download, external link and email event tracking.
A data-driven look at Chicago's economy, built with open data.
An iPhone-friendly Kalman filter written in C.
Metra's 2012 proposed service changes
Website for Open City
Open source Java library for on-line vehicle tracking, path estimation and parameter learning.
An open source multi-modal trip planner
Crowdsourcing data about which residential buildings do not have recycling in Chicago
School selection and admissions project