PHILLY TRUCE: Mediation, Referral and Peace Patrol (or Street Outreach) are the primary services we provide.

The PhillyTRUCE app aims to disrupt the cycle of community-level violence by enabling residents to take an active role in their own safety. We seek to foster a community where safety is a co-created, shared responsibility.

PHILLY TRUCE is more than a movement; it's a call to action. We're disrupting violence right where it happens and need your help. Volunteer for safety patrols, mentorship programs, or social media campaigns. Be the change you want to see….

We're building a data pipeline + dashboard for Code for Philly data!

The pipeline has two major goals:

• make it easier for community members to track active projects.
• serve as a template for other projects.

Background

Code for Philly (CfP) is a place where volunteers and non-profit organizations collaborate on projects. Since its founding in 2012, it’s seen a lot of activity:

• community slack with 3,000+ members.
• codeforphilly.org listing 246 projects.
• github.com/CodeForPhilly with 113 repos.

However, as CfP has grown, it’s become…

Code for Philly, Data Philly, R Ladies Philly, and the Data Jawn are joining together to host a data science hackathon to answer pertinent questions around the Opioid Crisis in Philadelphia using the power and talent inherent in the Philadelphia data community. The goals of this event are to provide health organizations with insight that may normally be unavailable to them without the resources of a data professional on staff and to demonstrate creative analyses that help folks gain more understanding around the opioid epidemic in our city.

My Apps 4 Septa App!

This was an old app from a hackathon in Philly, I created this visualization and technique for better understanding the routes and for users to dynamically explore the routes locally and in realtime.

I left a copy of it running here: http://middle.camp/septa/

Enjoy! :)

Please contact me for a commercial license if you want to use it that way.

Video of my super-awkward presentation of this app from that hackathon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAZCmvwZMgs

My Philly

My Philly is a site designed to make it easier to find and interact with the Registered Community Organizations (RCOs) of Philadelphia. It enables users to search their address, and find which RCOs apply to where they live. It also provides a coverage map to explore the city and see which areas could use more love.

Hi folks, Some of you are familiar with GroundedinPhilly.org, which is an open data and organizing site that is aimed at democratizing information about vacant land and providing folks with the tools to get legal access to that land. For us, it's about gardens, farms, and open space, but the site gets used in other ways as well. We're working on Phase II of the site and are looking for some help with a couple of projects. These include: - Incorporating the Philadelphia Water Department Parcel layer - Incorporating new data on City Owned properties - Creating a mechanism for…

A spin-off from the After School Wiki hackathon project that brings together the largest after school activity organizers in Philadelphia to create an open and central database of after school programming and to make it accessible for Philly's residents.

This project was developed during the Philly Ecocamp 2014.

This goal of this web application was to strengthen the relationship between community members and the public parks in their area. We fused GIS data provided by the Parks Department and projected it on to OpenStreetMap with the intention of producing a useful tool for engagement with local parks .

Community Involvement

• Report problems with a park
• Upload/View photos
• Suggest/Vote on community projects
• Post meet-ups on a park-specific community bulletin

PGW has committed to releasing a web service that can be queried for real-time and historic information on road closings due to repairs. This project will provide a desktop and/or mobile map of digs with details on their status.

Electronic Intern

Electronic Intern will help the PhillyASAP program maintain their listing of after-school programs in Philadelphia. Instead of having interns spend all summer cold-calling these programs, Electronic Intern will send automated calls that will direct the location to either send in their details by fax, a submit form on the website or press "4" to be directed back to PhillyASAP.

Written in Python, using Twilio's voice API.

A REST wrapper around the PHL Bike Theft data to query for bike thefts near a specific point (latitude/longitude, projection: 4326). Initially done to support Kiqstnd

I'll be using the Bike Theft Data to make an interactive web map, which will hopefully animate to show seasonal and/or hourly patterns in the data.

-Chris

UPDATE 10/16/2013

There was a major error with the originally posted project. When manipulating the dataset in Excel, I sorted by date, which usually sorts all columns, but for some reason lat and lon remained fixed. The data was originally sorted by precinct and then date, which explains why the data appeared isolated to individual neighborhoods.

I was skeptical of the data, but it seemed to "smooth out" further into the…

I am interested in developing a smartphone-based project to collect voluntary data on cyclists' bike route preferences.

The goal is to promote the app during a two to four week window where city or regional bicyclists would be encouraged to download and use the app to track their biking habits. The route data would be linked to a webmapping viewer that would allow users to the recorded routes and bike patterns of of all participants in realtime (users get fun instant feedback, we get great if self-selectedâ data in the aggregate).

The data generated would supplement the Delaware…

A way to help revitalize, renew, and reclaim Philadelphia's abandoned properties. Reclaim Philly is a vacant property tracking application. It mixes crowdsourced knowledge and public data to create a more complete picture of adandoned property in Philadelphia, PA, USA.