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Shea Frederick: open data lets you understand a city’s problems [VIDEO]
A new Sunlight Foundation video focuses on why municipal politicians ought to embrace publicly accessible government data.
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Shea Frederick: AOL/Ad.com developer named OpenGov Champion by Sunlight Foundation [VIDEO]
Civic hacker and AOL/Ad.com developer Shea Frederick is the Sunlight Foundation‘s latest OpenGov Champion. The nonprofit, D.C.-based foundation is known for promoting more open government and political transparency by encouraging people typically called “civic hackers” to create web and mobile apps to improve citizens’ access to government data.
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BmoreTech highlights data-viz projects from SpotCrime, Sickweather, Shea Frederick
Monday night’s BmoreTech Meetup featured three data visualization experts out to share one message: seeing data points on a map can sometimes be a whole lot more valuable than staring at numbers in a spreadsheet. Sort of the technologists’ equivalent of see the three, be the three.
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Thanks to civic hackers, a Montreal company just made Baltimore’s bus system more usable
Chris Whong, Shea Frederick and others set it in motion. Now Transit App has made real-time MTA bus data mobile friendly.
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“If you can’t code, you’re not Googling hard enough”: Chris Whong
Civic hackers Shea Frederick and Chris Whong were at Betamore last week to talk about trends in open data and how attainable using technology and open source software to better understand your community can be.
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This Ad.com civic hacker is renovating a Baltimore vacant [PHOTOS]
Shea Frederick is known to Baltimore’s civic hackers as the developer who built BaltimoreVacants.org, a website that catalogs the city’s 16,000 vacant properties. Now he’s rehabbing his own vacant house.
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10 times Baltimore technologists made an impact using civic data
Baltimore was a pioneer in releasing open data. Here’s a look at a few examples of what the tech community did with it.
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Here’s who we met at NET/WORK Baltimore 2016
The Feb. 17 career fair offered face time with hiring companies and swag wars that left everyone a winner.
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These 29 Baltimore tech firms are hiring right now: NET/WORK 2016
Check out the full list below, but your best chance to land a new gig is at the third annual NET/WORK job fair — Feb. 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
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Baltimore 911 call data is now posted online
A civic hacker has already dug into the data from the riots that followed Freddie Gray’s funeral.
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7 prizewinners from the Baltimore Hackathon
The fourth edition of the event, held at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center, featured big-name sponsors and lots of cool hardware hacks.