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Projects for Oakland Data Day 2014

DataDay Projects for 2014 in Oakland

Projects for Oakland Data Day 2014 - please add your project ideas and your teams as they form, along with data needs, issues & links to code repos.

Projects:

1. Catalog Oakland's Data! ========================= What's missing in 2014, how do we compare to other cities? Read more

2. GIS Maps Showing Air Quality, Air Pollution & Community Demographics ========================= Visualize the link between air quality and community demographics. Read more

3. Violence Prevention & Violence Interruption Programs ========================= What's the link between currently operating violence prevention / violence interruption programs and crime rates in those neighborhoods? Read more

4. Network Map of Bay Area Non-Profit Relationships ========================= Map out the network relationships of non-profits in the Bay Area in the hopes of better understanding where the gaps may be. Read more

5. Web-based Mapping Tool Focused for Vacant Land in Oakland ========================= Start putting vacant land in Oakland to good use by making it available for urban agriculture. The first step is to map all of the vacant land. Read more

The day's resultant project can be found here and the source can be viewed here.

6. Oakland Unified Staff Data ========================= Delve deep in to staffing data for OUSD to help make more educated decisions on staffing needs. Read more

7. Hyperlocal Job Listings ========================= Tie job listings to a sub-neighborhood or even a block. Read more

8. Crime Report Data Mapped to Show Common Criminal Routes ========================= Map crimes linked to perpetrators to determine overall crime vectors and aid police in determining hot routes. Read more

9. Building Permits Database ========================= Create open access to the database of building permits. Read more

10. Scraping Oakland Web Sites Training ======================== Max will lead a workshop that will show participants how to scrape content from public websites- still a critical tool for liberating public data! Read more

11. Open Disclosure - Bringing Oakland's Campaign Money to Light ======================== Create a campaign finance data tool that clearly shows the flow of money into and out of campaigns. Ensure government integrity and transparency in campaign activities by opening up campaign finance data to the public. Read more