meetup2 notes

Meetup #2 (9/28) Notes

Quick notes from the 9/28 Building Mashups with Web APIs meeting. I arrived late and missed some of the inital stuff, feel free to contribute.

Come to the Wed Oct 5th Noon Reno meeting open government City Hall Counsel Chambers

Social Media

Facebook integration

• OAuth?

Twitter

• pull data about user
• Live data?
• integrate #hashtags

foursquare

• API Explorer

City of Reno

• Green Reno
• wind data on buildings
• police and fire calls
• Reno Police already did iPhone app ??? crime data
• public art installations
• GIS data
• crowdsource data checking, sanity check
• parks and recreation dataset
• inventory - does this park have swing sets, etc
• Sierra Kids / vacation station - locations

WC School District ???

• no child left behind data?

Data Sources

• Crowdsourced data
• not limited to existing datasets
• http://www.socrata.com/ - federal open government company
• http://explore.data.gov/

Ideas!

• combine earthquake shaking maps and property value data
• temporal spatial crime / police data
• compute mood of reno based on twitter data
• Food truck tracking app - Colin & John

Resources

• Google Fusion tables
• Google Refine - clean up data
• http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/
• Noun project
• icons for nouns - use to illustrate
• http://codeforamerica.org/
• GeoCouch - couchdb
• Canvas API

Categories:

• Best use of Tropo - iPads!
• prize packs for categories
• mashable / tech crunch coverage
• KUNR coverage
• Github - best of show
• geolocation
• best use of open government data
• Each team gets 6 mo SnapEngage - live chat for site

Volunteers needed

• Wireless network
• Tents
• Inside / outside