This repo is for planning Hack For LA's 2017 National Day of Civic Hacking event.
Goal for participants: Tell a story about Los Angeles using data.
- 9/23/17 - National Day will be the kickoff event. The goal will be to introduce people to civic data sources, storytelling, and analyzing data in order to get participants thinking about how they would tell a story using data.
- Weekly Civic Hack Nights - At National Day, we'll introduce the weekly hack nights as a space to work, bounce around ideas, and get technical help.
- TBD Oct./Nov. Date - Events culminate in the SCDC Public Launch Event, where participants get to present the story pitches they've been working on.
The event's theme is Education. Prep to do:
- Specific questions posed to attendees to answer or think about.
- Compile references/guides about the data.
CCF would like to introduce the idea of being part of a larger community around civic data. The stories can involve data visualizations.
Planning will involve weekly 30-minute calls up until the event. Organizers will be split up to focus on production and programming.
- Half-day event: 12pm-6pm.
- Close with a networking happy hour.
- Single track
- "Case Study" speakers - talk about (1) their story and (2) the tech that went into creating the story.
- "Technical" speakers - talk about how to map data, how to visualize data, how to use Python/R to analyze data.
- Work on project at Civic Hack Nights, can get technical assistance there.
- Target: 50? 100? attendees.
- SCDC public launch.
- Datathon/Storython story pitches (accept a range in completeness).
- Accept/publish stories.