Open Gov / Open Data for Cities

Funded through a Knight Foundation grant, also on GitHub.

Open source app built to help users get the best out of their bikeshare experience by designing a route between selected start and end stations.

Digital platform for shaping the understanding of elections and issues.

Code for America collaboratively published web book.

Great list of suggested articles and papers on open data.

App built on top of real-time parking ticket data that predicts the likeliness you will be ticketed at parking meters.

List of demos for WET, a Web toolkit put together for developing accessible government websites.

Website for the Los Angeles chapter of the Code for America brigade.

Crash data for Chicago in 2005-2011 where a bicyclist or pedestrian was the first point of impact for a driver's automobile, as collected by responding law enforcement and maintained by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

The research team identified authoritative sources and collected data and relevant documentation from 109 of the originally selected 127 counties—an 86-percent response rate—at varying levels of comprehensiveness. Achieving this response rate required extensive and unexpected additional outreach because of both the timing of the data collection phase (during the peak work season in many county assessor’s offices) and extensive negotiations for government-to-government (G2G) data-sharing agreements between the counties and HUD. Data from the re- maining 18 counties were not collected for reasons that included not having electronically available data (3 counties); having parcel data in the hands of municipalities within the counties rather than those of the counties themselves (2 counties); fees (3 counties); data-sharing requirements (1 county); and other expressions of reluctance, including lacking the internal resources to process the request (9 counties).

The draft has a few visible flaws, but could go a long way toward making government data more accessible.

"This is a marketing website, not an open government website," said Clay Johnson, a leading advocate of open-government data. "The difference is: open government websites don't just have the PowerPoint deck slides that make you look good."