CivOmega: Wolfram Alpha for Government Data

What: A human-friendly search for open government data to answer questions like “Which senators voted for the abortion bill?” or “How many Dominicans live in Queens?” Components include NLP, mapping a query to data, and determining possibilities for outputs.

Who: Mike Tigas, Stephen Suen, Friedrich Lindenberg, Miguel Paz, Dan Schultz, Travis Swicegood, Joe Germuska, Chris Sopher, Leon Lin, Manuel Aristarán, Chris Zubak-Skees

Demo: http://www.civomega.com/

Repo: https://github.com/pudo/dataomega

NYC Drug Prices Comparison

What: Wouldn’t it be cool if we could make an iPhone app that tells someone the cheapest place to buy a certain drug? How about a visualization of drug prices in NYC? This idea is taken straight out of a link in the Hack Day wiki: https://apps.health.ny.gov/pdpw/SearchDrugs/Home.action

Who: Ying Quan Tan, Sisi Wei, Nick Doiron, Hong Qu

Demo: http://sisiwei.github.io/opennews-drug-prices/

Repo: https://github.com/sisiwei/opennews-drug-prices

Judgmental: Court Decision Scraper and API

What: Lots of states put their court decisions online as PDFs. We created a scraper that will gather them up and pop up an API to display them.

Who: Waldo Jaquith, Mariano Blejman, Noah Veltman, Chase Davis, Max Ogden, Joanna Kao, Dhanraj Konduru, Matt McDonald

Repo and docs: https://github.com/openva/judgmental

How to Open Gov Data Guide

What: This is a guide for government technologists on how to make in-demand datasets open.

Who: Erhardt Graeff, Chris Barr, Dylan Richard, Anthea Watson Strong, Willow Bloo, Saul Tannenbaum, Jessica Lord

Demo: http://jlord.github.io/open-data-guide/

Repo and docs: https://github.com/jlord/open-data-guide

Civic Score

What: A project to score elected officials and political geographies based on their civic engagement and responsiveness to solving problems.

Who: Philip Ashlock, Mariana Santos, David Quinn

Demo and design mock-ups: http://civicscore.org

Repo: https://github.com/philipashlock/civicscore/

OpenOpenNewsNews

What: We’re creating a single archive of things people want to know about news websites, the stories they tell, the format they’re presented in, and the reactions they elicit. By putting this information on a single open site, we hope that people will be encouraged to make comparisons of news organizations across time, topic, and geography.

Who: Brian Ableson, Stjn Debrouwere, Sonya Yan Song, Mark Boas, Annabel Church, Friedrich Lindenberg

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hptAkA0B7oioqypYoGVr-8mYuyV_z0eIdPwlcvBRsuw/

Repo: https://github.com/csvsoundsystem/OpenOpenNewsNews

Team Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/oonn