MIT-Harvard GovData Project
Doug Fritz MIT Media Lab, Daniel Yamins
Mon Jan 10 thru Fri Jan 14, 02-06:00pm, E14-493
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2011
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Basic familarity with Python. Javascript/HTML suggested.
Would you like to:
Help make US Government data more accessible and usable?
Contribute to and become a part of an open source project?
Develop your data wrangling and visualization skills?
There has been a recent explosion of interest in increasing transparent access to all types of government data, spurred in large part by the Federal Open Government Initiative. However, despite the large amount of interest, there have remained a number of challenges in effectively realizing key open government goals. In response, a joint team from Harvard and MIT developed the GovData platform, a system for capturing, organizing and presenting of large datasets on the web.
The first half of the program will be devoted to developing participants' data parsing and visualization abilities, centered around the GovData platform but teaching a variety of widely-applicable data wrangling skills. The second half will be an extended hackathon in which participants can get directly involved in GovData development. By the end of the week, we aim to assemble a motivated team of contributors going forward to help launch the initiative.
Contact: Doug Fritz, E14-548K, doug@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
Latest update: 19-Nov-2010
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