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City of Houston Open Innovation Hackathon: Friday/Saturday, May 17-18
Presented by Bruce Haupt, Performance Improvement Director, City of Houston Finance
Department (Email: [email protected] Twitter: @brucehaupt)
How Can We Use the City of Houston's
Open Data to Do More Good?
www.houstonhackathon.com #HackHou data.codeforhouston.com
The City of Houston in brief
Population and land mass:
Mayor: Annise D. Parker
City population: 2.2 million (#4)
MSA population: 6.2 million (#5)
Land Mass: 647 square miles (#3)
Administrative:
City Budget: $4 Billion
City Departments: 22
City employees: 21,000+
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Select activity measures:
Animal adoptions: 6,300 (50%)
Commercial building plans reviewed: 19,000+
EMS response time: 7.1 minutes
Fire response time: 7.4 minutes
Library circulation: 6.6 million
Parking citations: 200,000+
Police code-1 response time: 4.9 minutes
Parks after school enrichment participants: 200,000+
Pension payments as % of expenditures: 7.2%
Pot holes repaired within 5 days: 83%
Recycling % of total tonnage: 18%
Restaurant inspections completed: 37,000+
Water gallons delivered: 450 million
Waste water gallons treated: 217 million
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Why open data?
Why host a hackathon?
Why open data? Why host a hackathon?
Partner with Houston’s technology
community to tackle a shared challenge
to improve Houston City services
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Dialogue
Useful products
Building businesses
Capitalizing on opportunities
Access to City decision makers
Transparency and purposeful open data
Benefits include…
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What is a hackathon?
What is a hackathon?
Event where we develop creative
technological solutions and insights
for specific problems in a short
amount of time
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Why are you here?
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Here are some more City
project ideas…
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NYC’s first Hackathon focused on new designs for their website
How about a City of Houston mobile website design?
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http://data.codeforhouston.com/
http://servicetracker.cityofchicago.org/
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Dataset: http://data.codeforhouston.com/ (Data coming soon!)
http://lookatcook.com/
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http://data.codeforhouston.com/
http://mycity.houstontx.gov/don/
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Dataset: http://data.codeforhouston.com/ (Data coming soon!)
http://openbudgetoakland.org/
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http://mars-watchtower.herokuapp.com/
NASA’s Space Apps Challenge – Mars Watchtower (Weather) App
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https://rfpez.sba.gov/
From the Office of Business Opportunity: 1) Create a website that connects prime
contractors to certified subcontractors
2) Create a website that lists current city
contracting opportunities
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Dataset: http://data.codeforhouston.com/dataset/city-of-houston-fee-schedule
http://cohapp.cityofhouston.gov/FIN_FeeSchedule/default.aspx
Contact Information
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City of Houston Open Innovation Hackathon: Friday/Saturday, May 17-18
http://www.houstonhackathon.com/
http://data.codeforhouston.com/
Twitter: #HackHou
Bruce Haupt, Performance Improvement Director, City of Houston Finance Department
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @brucehaupt