Data for Democracy invites anyone who is interested in using data for positive social impact to sign up for the Data for Democracy Hackathon - New York. Collaborate on a project that uses data to drive better decisions and improve the world we live in. Come and work on projects like:
» Drug Spending - Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward.
» Election Transparency - Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community.
» Refugees - involves classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events in an attempt to track internal refugee crises across the globe.
» ProPublica - projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, ProPublica.
» USA Dashboard - A dashboard of key metrics for the USA, starting with city-level crime data.
» Immigration Connect - Collecting, analyzing, and modeling data related to immigration.
April 1, 2017
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