@openaustin

We use data, engineering, and product thinking to support local gov and orgs, to make Austin a more liveable, equitable city. 📧 [email protected]

 Austin, TX
open-austin.org/
Joined May 2009
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Come to the @openaustin @AURAatx social! Celebrate data-informed advocacy for affordable housing and other economic challenges 🙌🏽 meetup.com/open-austin/event… #atx #austintexas #hacking #meetup #equity #data #dataforgood #civichacking #civictech #democracy #socialimpact #urbanism
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Thanks to everyone who showed up to work on our Affordability/Displacement and Indigent Defense data projects at our Community Action Night!
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Get ready for record high temps this afternoon. Highs: 106-112° Heat index: 110-115° Cooling center info: austintexas.gov/alerts @ERCOT_ISO is asking Texans to voluntarily conserve energy during peak times. Here’s what you can do:
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Our next Community Action Night (CAN) is coming up! When :: This Wednesday (07/13) @ 6:45pm Where :: @TheZebraCo offices (thx 🦓!!!) meetup.com/open-austin/event…
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We’ll have some exciting news to announce in early August. Stay tuned!
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We'll meet this Wednesday to push further on our active projects. All projects are created through partnerships with other community non-profits. Be a part of the action. meetup.com/Open-Austin/event…
Us: What decision could you have made better, if you had had the data? Our county's elected women: LET ME TELL YOU Honored to engage with @VikkiGoodwinTX @ALTERforATX @JudgeAurora @CommishShea @drgloriaggd at @AustinPublicLib #civics #civicengagement #AustinTx #localpolitics
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First in-person CAN in over two years.. SUCCESS!! Thanks again to @TheZebraCo for donating their space and time :)
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This coming Wednesday is our first in-person CAN (in a long time)! More details available on the Meetup event, and special thanks to @TheZebraCo for hosting us! Fun starts at 6:30. meetup.com/Open-Austin/event…
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Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon: helping non-profits break down technical barriers. #civic #hacking #openaustin
Tech professionals volunteering for social good at a coffee shop.

ALT Tech professionals volunteering for social good at a coffee shop.

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Transportation authorities have spent billions widening urban freeways to fight traffic, to no avail, writes @davidzipper. What makes the "iron law of congestion" so hard to defeat? trib.al/ziRcDBL
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If you're a data scientist looking to volunteer your talents, start local! You'll have a bigger impact, especially if you can stick around for a while. If you're in Austin, be sure to check out @openaustin - @hongsupshin at #AustinPython
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If you're interested in the connections between gender, transportation and culture, here's an online library with articles, studies, podcasts, etc. I've collected in an effort to understand these intersections better. bit.ly/GenderTransportationC…
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volunteers @JusticeTexas have been at work for months on building a new landing page to catalog our growing list of interactive data tools. At long last, here it is: texasjusticeinitiative.org/d…
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Kathy Mitchell pushes for criminal justice reform as part of our list of 20 people we we're thankful for in 2020. austinchronicle.com/features…

Kathy Mitchell Pushes for Criminal Justice Reform by Getting Serious About Being Compassionate

2020 is the year when the dam finally broke, releasing a flood of public sentiment demanding true justice, the pent-up energies of several decades of...

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Come join my team! 🎉 Help make city code digestible + improve City services thru content strategy ✨ @USDS @AustinCityJobs @civiqueso @openaustin @18F @ImagineAustin @aigaaustin @NavaPBC @atxdesignweek 👀
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Our latest blog post is about scraping eviction court case records open-austin.org/blog/2020/11…
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Matt Carey@mcareyaus24 Sep 2020
I wrote a blog post about setting up a legislation API: "Serving US Legislative Markup Docs as JSON Using Django" pythonforlaw.com/2020/09/15/…

Serving US Legislative Markup Docs as JSON Using Django

The purpose of the API I created at authorityspoke.com is to take provisions of the US Code and Constitution that have been published in XML by the US government, extract their headings and content,...

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Open Austin retweeted
Matt Carey@mcareyaus30 Aug 2020
I released a new legaltech Python library called Legislice. Use it to download, compare, and export passages from the United States Code and the Constitution. Documentation: legislice.readthedocs.io/
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Replying to @EmergDesign
@EmergDesign wants to hear your thoughts on voting + staying safe in the pandemic. 😷🗳 💬 Share your input + participate in a design research project to uncover opportunities for health interventions to ensure safe elections during #COVID19. 👉 Survey: edc.care/safevoting
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