Data for Democracy Hackathon NYC

Data for Democracy invites anyone who is interested in using data for positive social impact to sign up for the Data for Democracy Hackathon - New York. Collaborate on a project that uses data to drive better decisions and improve the world we live in. Come and work on projects like:   »  Drug Spending - Help the public understand what their tax dollars are going toward.   »  Election Transparency - Aggregating and normalizing county-level election results to be shared with the broader community.   »  Refugees - involves classifying, tagging, analyzing and visualizing news events in an attempt to track internal refugee crises across the globe.   »  ProPublica - projects to support the non-profit investigative journalism publication, ProPublica.   »  USA Dashboard - A dashboard of key metrics for the USA, starting with city-level crime data.   »  Immigration Connect - Collecting, analyzing, and modeling data related to immigration.