As users of the City of Seattle’s open data, we’ve been really excited about the proactive stance the City has been taking toward increasing transparency and engagement with citizens through their Open Data program. They recently “launched” a…
Introducing Spokin
The CTO of the City of Seattle saw our presentation of our community well-being report pages at the DSSG program, and asked that we demo Spokin and the community well-being report pages to the mayor’s office. We did this last…
Wrapping Up Our Community Wellbeing Report Pages Prototype at DSSG
During the summer of 2015, we were selected to participate in the University of Washington’s eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program, where we worked with an interdisciplinary group of graduate student fellows and faculty research scientists…
Participting in the Data Science for Social Good Incubator Program
We’ve been selected to participate in the Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program! It’s a really great opportunity for us to work with smart graduate students and faculty at the UW eScience Institute, while sitting side by side with…
2015 iConference Social Media Expo — Open Government Data and Social Media
Yesterday we held our third Social Media Expo at the 2015 iConference, sponsored by FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research. This has been a great way for us to encourage interdisciplinary student teams to explore emerging themes in the field that…
Designing for Hack the Commute
Local civic tech hackathons and uncoferences are a great way to get to know a community even as it is gelling into one. I went to Hack the Commute, hosted by the City of Seattle and the Washington State Department…
Apolis: Our Third Place Heatmap Project at HackHousing
This past weekend I attended “HackHousing”, a hackathon hosted by Zillow in coordination with the White House, U.S. Department of Commerce and theDepartment of Housing and Urban Development and in partnership with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University…