{"id":244,"date":"2012-01-23T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.225.155.113\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/23\/chicago_open_data_at_work\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:22:15","slug":"chicago-open-data-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weinstein.org\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/chicago-open-data-at-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Open Data at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago Blagica Bottigliero<\/a> started the website Gals’ Guide<\/a>
\nas an online forum for young women moving out on their own an into the
\n“big city”. Recently, I’ve been working with her on taking the site
\nto the next step; building a web application utilizing the growing sets of data
\nabout life in Chicago.[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Gals’ Guide Map App<\/a> is
\ndesigned to combine different datasets about the city’s various neighborhoods
\ninto one, assisting one in finding right place to live.<\/p>\n

The web app is, somewhere between alpha and beta stages, not
\nready for general use or even rigorously browser tested, but ready for
\nfeedback. To that end, we’ve started showing the app to our various networks to
\ngather feedback as it moves towards a general, full public release.<\/p>\n

\"galsguide.png\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The map and features therein have been influenced by other map
\nmashups out there, such as the recent work done by the Chicago Tribune’s News Applications
\nteam.[2]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Currently it incorporates data from the U.S. Census, the
\nCity of Chicago and Groupon. But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are
\nplenty of other datasets about the city from sources such as county and state, Everyblock, Yelp, Grubhub and others.<\/p>\n

Go, check it out and leave some feedback.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>
\nThis is also the next logical step for me from coding up PHP classes for the
\nCTA’s API and the City of Chicago’s open data portal I started working on back
\nin July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

[2]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>
\nThe team has a blog<\/a> which includes a nice series of post on their work, I
\nrecommend taking a look.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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