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Join Open Data Ottawa for a workshop on Open Refine

We’re hosting an Open Refine workshop with Edward and Matt on May 25th at Ottawa City Hall in the Colonel By room. Seating is limited to 15 people. Laptop and Open Refine required. Ticket cost goes to secure your place and pastries.

“OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a tool for working with
messy data, cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another,
extending it with web services, and linking it to databases.

After attending this workshop you will be able to take a spreadsheet
or database of data with many inconsistencies and errors and transform
it into a beautiful data set that is clean, consistent, and that has
added functionality, like google maps geolocation information.”

Get your ticket: http://guestli.st/161409 (click the orange Register button on the right on that site).

For more information, Message us on twitter

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Announcing NYC BigApps 2013

nycedc:

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New York City is going big with the launch of NYC BigApps 2013, the fourth annual BigApps competition to promote government transparency and innovative new technologies, at tonight’s New York Tech Meetup event. Powered by CollabFinder, this year’s competition, which challenges mobile and web developers to create cool, free apps for New Yorkers, has upped the ante, offering big prizes for apps that solve BigIssues specific to NYC using a bigger pool of data than ever before.

This year, in conjunction with NYC DoITT, and in partnership with BMW iVentures and eBay, Inc., we are excited to make the following announcements:

  • We’re challenging developers to create apps that solve BigIssues facing New Yorkers in four specific areas: Jobs and Workforce Mobility; Healthy Living; Lifelong Learning; and Cleanweb: Energy, Environment and Resilience. 
  • This year’s cash awards total $150,000. The Grand Prize winner for NYC BigApps 2013 is eligible to win up to $60,000! 
  • We’re expanding our eligible data resource base. Applicants can pick at least one data set from NYC Open Data or other approved federal, state, city and private data sets and APIs; generate at least one new, original data set through the app; or mix and match any of these approaches. 

We’re hosting an all weekend BigApps Expo and Hackathon on April 6-7 at eBay to help jumpstart developer efforts. Come join fellow developers, designers, hackers and entrepreneurs in a creative and collaborative space to build awesome apps to enter into the competition.

Our panel of judges features renowned experts in the field. Don’t miss the chance for once in a lifetime exposure to this prestigious group of judges:

  • Dawn Barber, Co-founder, New York Tech Meetup 
  • John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks 
  • Arianna Huffington, Chair, President, and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group 
  • Lawrence Lenihan, Founder, CEO, and Managing Director, FirstMark Capital 
  • Ann Li, Managing Director, Center for Economic Transformation, NYCEDC 
  • Rahul Merchant, Commissioner, NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications 
  • Ulrich Quay, Managing Director, BMW iVentures 
  • Danny Schultz, Co-founder & Managing Director, DFJ Gotham Ventures 
  • David Tisch, Managing Partner, BoxGroup 
  • Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

NYC BigApps 2013 is just one more example of the City’s ongoing efforts to empower NYC’s amazing developers and entrepreneurs by awarding generous cash prizes; offering invaluable startup support, such as the BigApps Founders Network; and granting participants complete IP ownership of their apps.

Submissions for NYC BigApps 2013 are due by 5:00 PM EST on June 7, 2013 – so start coding! Find out more at www.nycbigapps.com. 

(via nycdoitt)

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Ottawa open data contacts & discussion channels

With the Apps4Ottawa contest underway, here are some reminders about contact points:

Citizens

You can find Open Data Ottawa on Twitter, Facebook, in a blog and via email

@opendataottawa

http://www.facebook.com/opendataottawa

info@opendataottawa.ca

As well there is a discussion group

groups.google.ca/group/dataott

We sometimes have pub nights, they’re informal opportunities to meet others interested in open data. The next one is March 21, 2013 at the Fox & Feather. Register at: http://marchopendatapub.eventbrite.com/
Hashtag is #opendatapub

City

On the city side, there is the portal, an email contact address, mailing list and RSS feed. The transit system also maintains a developers’ site and an apps portal.

http://ottawa.ca/opendata

http://ottawa.ca/donneesouvertes

catalog: http://ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/statisticsdata/opendata/info/index.htm

opendata@ottawa.ca

(For OC Transpo data questions and issues, please contact OCopendata@ottawa.ca )

mailing list: https://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/Form10.aspx?fid=776125

RSS: http://ottawa.ca/rss/open_data_en.xml

City sometimes tweets using hashtag #yowdata

Transit Agency (OC Transpo)

http://octranspo1.com/developers

http://octranspo1.com/mobile/community_app_gallery

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#Apps4Ottawa Contest on CTV Ottawa Morning - Councillor Tim Tierney, city open data lead Rob Giggey

National contest: http://www.apps4ottawa.ca/
Total prizes for apps $38,000 - including four top prizes of $3000.
Deadline for apps contest is May 12, 2013.
(Actually goes beyond apps, one of the categories is Data Analysis and Visualizations.)
You can also submit ideas for apps (no prizes for ideas). Deadline for ideas is March 10, 2013.