What happens when a campaign tool is too expensive, too outdated, and too frustrating to use? You build your own. We'll talk through the journey, from initial discussions to app prototyping, testing, and live use to cover the 500K+ addresses (via open data) in Edmonton. Also learnings, including recent adapting to a working example for Toronto (which we'll walk through), and the goal of helping candidates better understand their constituents.
Speakers
Eugene Chen
A campaign tech lead for successive, successful municipal campaigns since 2017, Eugene is a data-visualization focused software engineer whose work has been referenced in media outlets like the CBC, NYT, and NPR. Most recently working with the World Bank, Imagine Canada, and Code for Canada, he loves open data (is a co-founder of the Canadian Open Data Society), loves creating (ideaowl.com), and will be in Toronto (and Waterloo) later this + next week.