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Project Ideas List:

Topics mentioned via previous sessions. May make sense to card sort / prioritize.

*2017.03.28 18:30:04

Meeting held @ City Hall (https://nvite.com/BMGHack/d3c3)

Ideas:

  • Data oriented data.world social media platform for data good api for python and r

    • Data for Democracy (national focus... data scientists)

    • open parking spots

  • Revamping utility payment UI save non-sensitive information client side validation of

  • art map public art gallery

  • City GIS

  • analyzing traffic data over time looking at congestion

    waze

app for SNAP food stamp, CalFresh

reporting Opiod OD anonymous reporting

better visibility of the data portal

tag buildings with QR code to take you to ureport for graffitti

shelter app to see what capacity is available for a bed selection criteria

calendar feed for seeing when meetings are

parking spots

utilities data building a history of the dataset u/v measurements of disinfection byproducts

correlation between unrelated datasets mapping those

workflow analysis - both internal

  • customer analysis

  • farmers market master inventory list

  • homeless project

    • how they became homeless routes to get back on their feet analyze what paths get them back most efficiently
  • fire data

    • smoke sense enigma generate a profile for where smoke detectors are better pick
  • source of what are the most common complaints to the Mayors Office as a way to find projects that are impactful could look at the HT, letters to the editors, public forums what are the pain points for people interacting with city services

  • parking and vehicles

    • available parking spaces in garages and on street
    • parking meters all take credit cards

From large pads of paper (may be duplicates of above list)

Mapping 311 Data

  • Look for patterns between unrelated data sets

Engage with City to identify problems that the group can solve (work-flow analysis)

  • Line Tracker
  • Farmers Market Master Info (applications for expansion)

Underserved analysis

  • Path / demographics of population
  • routes out of poverty
  • efficiency analysis of current routes out

Art Map Revamp Utilities Payment UI

Real-time and/or aggregated traffic congestion probe (use Waze data?)

SNAP app?

Report Opiod OD?

Visibility of data portal (https://data.bloomington.in.gov)

Shelter availability (https://bloomington.in.gov/animal-shelter/animals)

Calendar feed for all City meetings (Does this exist? https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bloomington.in.gov_r7b1mkrme1r8uhl3b5amhb50bc@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York via: https://bloomington.in.gov/boards/)

Bloomington Data on data.world

Engage with Data for Democracy

Open Parking Spots

  • (either image recognition or parking meter data)

Data to publish

Data to model

  • Orange 3 - data mining in Python
  • matplotlib - python

*2017.02.21

Previously mentioned ideas available here: https://github.com/BMGhack/civic-hacking/blob/master/docs/minutes/2.21.17.md

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