CUSP-AlumniHackathon2017

hackathon with pitches from CUSP Alumni working in NYC agencies

Alumni Present: Maria Filippelli - DataKind

Sara Arango-Franco - BetaGov

Meredith McCarron - Attorney General

Also from BetaGov Sandy Mullins, from AG Lacey Keller

Judges: Angel Hawkings, Caryn Knutson, Brendan Reilly

Slack Channel

AG:

All three projects that need data (tweets, courts, bills) are in different folders on OAGCloud here:

Comptroller Scraping: Build a tool to scrape the conptrolled website. Here is the link for the scraping project:

data

Delivarable: Scraping tool

Topic Modeling:

classifying court or bill text data

2 datasets

Deliverable: Model/Visualization

Identify complsaints on twitter:

find tweet similar to a preclassified set

1 dataset

Deliverable: Model/App

BetaGov:

DA prosecution modelling

Create a model/Viz to turn into a tool for DA analytics

data

Deliverable: Model/Viz

DataKind: hackpad

California Voting

Identify early voting center locations in Sacramento county

data

Deliverable: Map

School support tweets

Evaluate the support of k-12 school programs by tweets

data

Deliverable: Model

Disaster resources

Predict the number of volunteers required for a disaster

data

Deliverable: Model