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Presidents' Day DC DataCamp - Code for America - (this page: http://ur1.ca/3ayql )

http://presidentsday-dc-datacamp.eventbrite.com/

Hashtag: #datacamp

Project Ideas

Geo data
OpenStreetMap
Real estate mashup - maps of future construction and investment plans (DC city data)
DC 311 stuff?
Public services and public data access for people with only mobile phones
- sms interface for DC 311
- sms alerts
- mobile web sites
Map DC Food Shed / Desert
- First version now up: http://dcfoodshed.appspot.com/
  - draft for text http://meetingwords.com/YBROjLdVjC
- TODO: Add Community Garden locations
- Interesting implementation of the idea: http://joserafaeljimenez.com/SI649/demo/
- Parody along similar lines - Find the Working Poor: http://www.predatorylendingassociation.com/working-poor-locations.shtml
Food nutrition
- Scraping http://healthyrecipes.wikia.com/ and mashing it up with nutrition data
  - potentially an addon/extension to query nutrition data and place on the page
  - use links in ingredients list for nutrition lookups
- nutrition data: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
  - limit by blood pressure key minerals for ranking? (potassium,magnesium,calcium,sodium)
- 2-dimensional map of nutrient/calorie (Y-axis) versus related foods (X-axis)
Map Embassy Parties
- http://data.dc.gov/Metadata.aspx?id=77
- http://www.culturecapital.com/search.php?terms=embassy&mode=search
Health Inspection / Yelp Mashup
- cf. roachmap from NYC
- Inspections - http://washington.dc.gegov.com/webadmin/dhd_431/web/
- http://eaves.ca/2011/01/31/how-yelp-could-help-save-millions-in-health-care-costs/
- https://github.com/tlpinney/foodscrape
- http://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/getdata?format=json&name=dcrestaurantinspection&limit=5&offset=0
- http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/dcrestaurantinspection/
Place annotation/API
Data scraping/locating for homeless services in DC - providing dataset/expanding dataset for http://appforthehomeless.com/
- See Google docs here for this project's current status and lessons learned:
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mX9esOQ2sIyHU1Z-iFOFbpzRBpfEX94v0gHOroDFgjo/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLDU75EF
- The ScraperWiki I'm working on currently: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/mealsnowdc. Now pivoted to Ruby because there's a better RSS scraper there: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/dcfoodrss/
Homeless services / social
USDA farmers market data
- http://www.rawdc.org/dc/fruitDC.html
usda nutrition data http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
- Socrata Open API: http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/U-S-Farmers-Markets/sk4m-ajki
USDA Calorie Information:
- graph different (protein vs fiber)
- "foodshed" map
Transit
- circulator data just became available
- bus information visualization
  - WMATA api
  - nextbus
  - capitol bikeshare data - and there's a scraper!
    - Visualization: http://oobrien.com/vis/bikes/?city=washingtondc
  - Bicycle count locations on data.dc.gov
  - Some transit related OCTO code:
- Start of Texting to Get Train Info: https://github.com/wonderchook/Text-my-Train
Ideas from seattle
- Specific neighborhoods, hyperlocal blogging
- mobile damage assessment
- transit apps
Idea for architecture excercise - Charity Registry:
- A la carte donation interface for local shelters/food banks/charities
- Orgs would sign up for this service, and choose items that they are in need of from an interface fed by the upcoming Amazon, Walmart, or PeaPod APIs
- Similar to the wedding registry model - users then have an easy way to find charities they want to support and purchase items that they need directly. This way charities can cut down on the amount of donated items they're receiving that they don't need.
- Each week, all the donations are shipped from the service to the org that needs them.
Wikipedia Geocoding gadget
Wikimedia DC outreach & increase diversity:
- Workshops at local libraries across the city, opportunities for people to add info about their neighborhoods, and variety of topics.
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DC/Local_outreach
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C. - want to make sure our conference has a good outreach component and opportunity for local students from across DC to attend, be involved, etc.

Cool Tools and Data

Twilio
data.dc.gov ("sweet sweet data catalogue")
GeoCommons
Appcelerator
Scraperwiki
http://geoloqi.com/
OCTO Labs projects on Github: https://github.com/octolabs
Homeless service data
- DMH Certified Community Based Mental Health Service Providers - http://data.dc.gov/Metadata.aspx?id=1740
- Human Service Locations (HumanServicePt) - http://data.dc.gov/Metadata.aspx?id=326
Bicycle Count Locations: http://data.dc.gov/Metadata.aspx?id=705
https://github.com/wonderchook/metrosquare
National Broadband access data from the FCC http://broadbandmap.gov/

Name / Share / Learn

Michael B. / Python, Scraperwiki, / geodata, heatmaps
http://www.dcfoodfinder.org/

Signup List (include your twitter handle, any links)

Michael Bernstein - michaelbernstein.com - michaelb@codeforamerica.org
Jessy Kate @jessykate
M. K. @JerseyCodez - michelle@codeforamerica.org
Chris Musialek - @cmoose
Jon Long - @linesandwaves
Kate Chapman - @wonderchook
Katie Filbert - @filbertkm
Jeremy Canfield - @cdjeremy
Alex Howard @digiphile
Mike Chelen @mikechelen
Kelli Shewmaker @kelshew

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LUNCH WILL BE TASTY SANDWICHES YUM!! WHAT KIND DO YOU WANT??
See options at: http://www.potbelly.com/Food/Menu.aspx

Turkey Breast (w/ swiss cheese) on wheat +2
Chicken salad w/o cheese w/ lettuce & tomato
Roast Beef (w/ swiss cheese) on wheat
Veggie (w/o mushrooms) +1
Veggie (w/ mushrooms)
Roast beef (w/provolone) on white with mustard +1
DC Club with open bacon (sandwich as a platform)

http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2011/02/civic-hacktivism-at-data-camp-seattle.html