International Open Data Day 2018 | MIAMI

OPEN DATA DAY HACKATHON: RESILIENCY IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Open Data Day is a worldwide celebration of open government and access to data. In South Florida, local software developers, coders, designers and other technologists will participate in a resiliency-themed hackathon featuring new open data sets provided by the City of Miami and the Open 211 Data Portal.

Code for Miami will set up a series of challenges for the hackers to work on, but feel free to explore and create your own project. Challenges questions may include: How to visualize changes in real estate demand in the face of climate impacts? How to inform citizens who do not own smartphones about extreme weather events?

If you’re not a hacker, don’t worry – the Society of Professional Journalists and FIU’s GIS Center will provide morning workshops on how to use Google Maps and ArcGIS Online to create simple maps with the online data sets. Then you can join in the fun during the afternoon!

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WORKSHOPS

Google MyMaps and Fusion Tables
Samantha Sunne from Society of Professional Journalists

ArcGIS Online and Story Maps
Sheyla Aguilar de Santana from FIU GIS

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GUEST SPEAKERS

Brian Schriner: 
Dean, College of Communication, Architecture and the Arts at FIU

Mike Sarasti: 
Chief Innovation Officer, City of Miami

Valencia Gunder: 
Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society; Executive Director, Make the Homeless Smile; Community Liaison, EcoTech Visions

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DATA SETS

NEW! – City of Miami Open Data Portal
https://data.miamigov.com/

NEW! – Open 211 Data Portal
http://miami.open.211.developer.adopta.agency/

Miami Dade County Open Data Portal
https://opendata.miamidade.gov/

More To Come…

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SCHEDULE

9am – Registration & Breakfast

9:30am – Welcome
Dean Brian Schriner

9:45am – Data Sets, Challenges and Workshops
Julie Kramer, Code for Miami, and Mike Sarasti, City of MIami

10am-12:45pm – Morning work session
Hackers get to work on challenges!

10am-11:15am – WORKSHOP: Google MyMaps and Fusion Tables
Samantha Sunne from Google News Labs/SPJ leads workshop in Room 129

11:30am-12:45pm – WORKSHOP: ArcGIS Online and Story Maps
Sheyla Aguilar de Santana from FIU GIS leads workshop in Room 129

12:45pm-1:30pm LUNCH
Speaker: Valencia Gunder

1:30-4:30pm – Afternoon work session
Hackers get to work on challenges!

1:30-3pm – Google Tools HELP STATION available
Samantha Sunne is available to help people use Google Tools on challenges

4:30-5pm – Presentations & Reception

This hackathon is co-sponsored by FIU’s Department of Journalism + Media and Code for Miami, a volunteer civic hacking group.