Open Source Amazon Echo

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Presenter: David Janes (@dpjanes (http://twitter.com/dpjanes)). David will be presenting an Open Source Amazon Echo project he wrote to display City of Toronto Open Data, e.g. parks, schools, well-known locations. Results for the queries made to the Amazon Echo are displayed on a kiosk-like web page. He’ll also talk about the data normalization process he used (built on Schema.org), to make all the various data sets have a common data format.

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Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros 7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion 7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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Seventy-ninth hacknight; 49 participants.

Presenter: David Janes (@dpjanes)

Alexa / Toronto Open Data – Civic Tech Toronto Presentation from David Janes

Breakout groups:

• Civic Tech 101 (Sharon) ← go here if it’s your first time!
• Budgetpedia (Henrik) ← improving user experience, UI, user research, personas (ux)
• CivicTech website (Patrick) CSS help
• DemocracyKit (Chris) ← building resources for municipal campaigns.
• TTC subway tracker (Raph) ← performance monitoring. {DATA. python. Automating. APIs. Opinions.}
• Councilmatic (Gabe) ← communicating city hall activity {testing user interviews, TMMIS users. }
• PCOC (Sharky) ← racial profiling. {education. Legal mean for keeping accountable}
• TPL booking system (Ciel) ← booking digital innovation hub assets. {}
• Guerrilla Archiving (Sharly) ← improving scrapers. App for in-person events.

Thanks to HackerYou for hosting us, and for dinner!