Sixteenth hacknight – 18 participants.
Presenter: Cindy Tan.
Slides, LinkedIn/CivicAction research findings:
Cindy’s slides:
Breakout groups:
- Toronto Budget – Emily
- Planning application scraper – Gabe
- Civic Tech 101 – Howard
- Tracking city councillors’ voting records – Alan
- Plain language & government websites – Matthew
- Conversation about building community and common cause – Alex T. [combined with CT101]
Workgroup: Toronto Budget Project
Participants: Emily Fan, David Dou, Henrik Bechmann, Howard Tam
We reviewed tasks leading up to next week’s workshop, and the agenda for the workshop.
We had a vigorous exploration and discussion on approaches to visualization, including the merit or lack of merit of comparing budget item trends between different levels of the budget. This is a capability that is apparently not commonly available.
Planning application scraper group: Gabe & Josh
We had an ambitious plan for the evening, and we made pretty good progress:
– get set up on github: done
– make DB schema: done
– parse the data: done
– insert into an SQL database: not done
– set up a cronjob: not done
– allow basic database queries: not done
So… it’s easy to guess what we’ll be doing next week.
Here’s our repo: https://github.com/spiderbites/to-planning-applications