#civicdata — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civicdata, aggregated by home.social.
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Public data can help New Yorkers examine local conditions, city services, and community priorities.
Learn how to navigate the NYC Open Data platform during this free introductory class.
📅 Monday, August 10, at 6 pm ET
🔗 RSVP: https://www.beta.nyc/event/e260810 -
A useful civic-data resource for community groups, researchers, journalists, government staff, and residents:
Search an NYC address or select a geographic boundary to examine how districts and agency service areas overlap across the city.
Explore BetaNYC’s Boundaries Map: https://boundaries.beta.nyc
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RE: https://piaille.fr/@DMerigoux/116715266609605024
Looking into that and this is very cool! WTB in the us, the book's chapter 3.4 ("Agile development with lawyers and programmers ") is super interesting and have plenty of references
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Devin Thakker explains: What Makes Civic Data So Hard to Structure. https://devinthakker.com/blog/what-makes-civic-data-hard-to-structure #CivicData #DemocracyTech
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Sometimes you're casually adding new sites to @civicband and you add some city in #Massachusetts you've never heard of and then you've added 5000 more documents to the index 😂
The well of #CivicData is so deep and so wide and we've only started dipping our toes in.
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Oh hey another one: #BeverlyHills has posted no #CityCouncil minutes for this year.
Curious
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Marin County has posted no minutes for the Board of Supervisors meetings for this whole year.
Extremely weird.
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Continuing our deep dive, it looks like #Washington Township, #Indiana, stopped publishing City Council minutes? Anyone from around there want to investigate for us?
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We're digging in to the sites that have fallen out of date, and apparently #BirminghamAL just stopped posting minutes in 2024? Not sure why? Anyone who lives there and wants to help us dig in, reach out!
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“The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. We expect these datasets to be used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, and policymakers.“
"We obtain immigration enforcement data from the U.S. government, primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests.”
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Getting a last blog post in under the wire for 2025: https://phildini.dev/the-body-politic
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Hey if you had databases for all the election contributions, including IEs, for every county in California going back to 2010, would that be... useful for you?
(boosts welcome)
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And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.
https://wandering.shop/@leonardr/113935996322582259
#Python #civictech #opensource #FLOSS #BeautifulSoup #civicdata #datascience #scraping #webscraping #datahoarder
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An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone’s Ballots to Combat Mistrust (#NYTimes)
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Looking for ways to shape the #digital and sustainable #future? Sign up for the Weizenbaum Conference and don’t miss the #WIConf24 Poster -⚡️ talks on #DataDonations #opendata #CivicData #GenAI #design and #participation in #AI strategies 👇https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/
@freieuniversitaet
@WZB_Berlin
@tuberlin
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Who would be interested in an archive of the MTA bus GTFS-RT data? It could be used to analyze bus on time performance. #opendata #CivicData #nyc #transit
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I made some major changes to the Baltimore City entity reference I shared on here a couple months back.
The Airtable base now lists "assignments" w/ names, agencies, and start/end date for leadership roles https://airtable.com/app1TxhwkepwEygN7/shrsG7ZZ947kG1eDA/tblFmL54X4YOCw1QV/viw5qmxXfPRgVR6QM?blocks=hide
It has a bunch of missing names + dates but it is a good start on a reference that should exist but doesn't. #Baltimore #bmorehistoric #CivicData #OpenBaltimore
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Ariana Mendible is sharing a great talk, "Small Town Police Accountability: A Data Science Toolkit" here at #SciPy2023. Her group has created a great package to help researchers parse the output of FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) requests, using #OCR, #NLP, and #Python. The library, called SToPA, is available on GitHub: https://github.com/qsideinstitute/SToPA
More on the talk here: https://cfp.scipy.org/2023/talk/AXPZZG/#SciPy #Policing #CivicData #DataScience #FOIA #Police
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Working on a blog series + talk proposal + demo about open data as it relates to ML.
Mastodon data folks + ML folks : what research/blogs/repos do you know?
What excites you about this overlap?
What concerns you?
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Here’s v1 of a JSON format for capturing #Boulder city council meeting minutes. Feedback welcome! #CivicData #OpenData https://github.com/BoulderPublicData/City-Council-Minutes
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W00T!
We now have an #nptech group on Mastodon!
You can find it at @nptech
Please boost this message.
#nonprofit
#technology
#SocialGood
#CivicTech
#PositiveSocialChange
#Philanthropy
#CommunityTechnology
#PublicGood
#NTEN
#NonprofitTechnolgy
#OnlineActivism
#ElectronicAdvocacy
#DigitalInclusion
#MissionBased
#CivicMedia
#technobabes
#SocialEnterprise
#TechnologyAffinityGroup
#NotForProfit
#CommunityBased
#CivicData
#NetworkCentricAdvocacy
#MacroSocialWork
#PublicAdministration
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A big thanks to the folks at OpenNorth for not only making a simple API to get the Hansard texts (House of Common debates), but offering a single database dump that lets you query the whole thing yourself.