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Interested in helping? You can:
* Create open gov projects based off of the [https://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop_7/Saturday_projects Python Workshop Saturday projects].▼
* Edit the Saturday projects on Github
* Download the files from Github, try them out, and send feedback to shaunagm (at gmail dot com)
To Do (in rough chronological order):
* Saturday projects
* Go through curriculum and flavor examples to be gov data
* Create an "survey of open government projects" presentation (20 - 30 min) to give folks a taste of what is possible.
* Logistics (funding, date, location, staff)
==Saturday Projects==
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Three project ideas:
* API project - lead people: James and Erin
* Stats project - lead person: Shauna
* Graphical project (visualizing data) - Shauna?
Projects should be:
* as simple as possible
* modular - introduce one thing at a time, possibly in separate scripts labeled "proj1", "proj2" (see [https://github.com/jesstess/Wordplay the original WordPlay project]) for an example.
* well commented (at least for the first draft)
Put projects in [https://github.com/shaunagm/IntroToOpenGov this GitHub repo].
===API project===
'''What do we want people to learn?'''
* What an API is.
* Using the URL bar to query an API vs doing so within a script.
* Endpoints and return values. Get vs put vs post vs delete
'''Good possible APIs to use''':<br />
Capitol Words? Or general Real Time Congress, or Influence Explorer. The key is that whichever API we use should be as simple as possible, with straightforward attribute names.
'''What should the API do?'''
* Easily access government data from online database.
* Show examples of querying - how to look for intersects, unions, if-then, etc.
* Maybe link it to a simple display - html page?
'''Notes'''
Use [http://www.codecademy.com/courses/python-intermediate-en-6zbLp this intro to APIs] as inspiration?
===Stats project===
'''What do we want people to learn?'''
* How to use python to do basic math/statistics:
** Find minimums, maximums, averages, sums.
* How to get data into appropriate format i.e. from string to integer (if time.)
* How to handle arrays and data objects (if time.)
'''Good datasets to use.''':<br />
Whatever's the most interesting - and maybe something complementary to whatever we use for other projects.
'''What should the Stats project do?'''
* Access a file with a cleaned-up dataset.
* Show people what data objects are/look like in python. Introduce or go over how to access elements of arrays/hashes.
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* Optional: Access a file with a dirty dataset and clean it up (mainly data typing.)
===Visualization project===
* Options:
** Matplotlib - possibly hard to install? But maybe install it on our own server and have attendees access it.
** Maybe do two visualizations - a straightforward/simple scatterplot or pie chart (ugh) and then a more complicated (and abstracted away) map
** Use [http://www.census.gov/housing/ahs/ american household survey data]? Use this [https://github.com/sunlightlabs/census census wrapper]?
** Things to visualize:
*** Two non-categorical variables, for the scatter plot, for instance average income of an area by some other value.
*** Things that vary by state, that we can show color-coded on a map: income, ethnic diversity, occupations, age
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