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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: bruce.haupt@houstontx.gov 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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8 http://www.houstonhackathon.com/

9 http://data.codeforhouston.com/

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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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https://www.auntbertha.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://adoptahydrant.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: bruce.haupt@houstontx.gov

Twitter: @brucehaupt