A Democracy Data Science Hack-a-thon!
Calling all people with data analysis and visualizations skills to meet community needs
We are seeking people with data analysis and visualization skills to join the 100% Democracy Data Science Hack-a-thon!
This exciting event for data students and professionals is a great opportunity to engage with interesting problems and support efforts to strengthen democracy.
Projects we will be working on include:
Precinct Turnout Visualizations and Dashboards to support people hosting parties at the polls with accurate information about how to do more equitable outreach to new voters.
Community Voter Turnout “Heatmaps” to support local chapters of the League of Women Voters in developing strategies to include all members of the communities they serve.
Modeling Student Voter Registrations occurring across the ~2,000 campuses connected to the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition based on a variety of datasets measuring campus strategic capacity, registration rates, and turnout.
The 100% Democracy Data Science Hack-a-thon will be a part of the 100% Democracy Research and Design Symposium taking place from April 25 to April 29.
All data analysis and visualization specialists taking part will be asked to commit to the following actions:
Participate in a 30 minute introductory phone call with your community partner before April 22.
Participate in a 2 hour virtual work session between April 25 and April 29 to develop a minimum viable version of the data product that your community partner needs.
The 100% Democracy Data Science Hack-a-thon leadership team will take responsibility for ensuring that each team has clean datasets and clear project specifications to work with.
Please email me at snovey1@jhu.edu if you are interested in participating as either a data specialist or a community partner with a data need!