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Civic Tech
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Data Science Mercenaries Making the World a Better Place
Fast Company's profile of organizations applying data science skills to social sector problems — an early piece on the 'data for good' movement before DataKind and similar organizations had scaled. Reflects the 2013 optimism that data science talent could be redirected toward civic and humanitarian impact.
EveryBlock Source Code — Google Code
EveryBlock's source code released publicly after MSNBC shut down the service — a civic data aggregation platform that combined neighborhood-level crime, restaurant inspections, permits, and news. Adrian Holovaty's landmark local journalism experiment.
Mike Migurski: m.teczno.com
Mike Migurski's personal site — the former Stamen Design technical director who went on to become CTO of Code for America. A key figure in SF data visualization and civic tech in the early 2010s.
Cracking Oakland's Code
East Bay Express feature on Oakland's early open data and civic technology efforts — how local developers and city staff were beginning to use public data to address urban problems. An early document of the civic tech movement in the Bay Area.
Hackathon Aims to Make Oakland More Open
Code for Oakland 2012 brought together developers and city officials to build tools using open government data — part of the early Code for America ecosystem that helped establish civic tech as a legitimate software practice.