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Social Justice Stop The Violence Data Mapping Initiative Bootstrapping

im working to create a longitudinal social justice stop the violence data mapping initiative to add stories from communities addressing the various forms of violence plaguing our city. im working on learning code that helps us map our stories because so much policy, whether we like it or not, is created based on us without us at the table. i reached out to the Algorithmic Justice League to see if i can host a viewing of their documentary "Coded Bias" https://www.wmm.com/coded-bias-host-a-screening/thank-you-for-signing-up/ https://www.ajl.org/ to help show how we are experimented in this…

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School Budget Aggregator Commenting

The School District of Philadelphia has released School Budget information for the 2019 Fiscal Year as a collection of PDFs, one for each school. This Python download script (in the form of a Jupyter Notebook) aggregates these budgets and outputs them in a few CSVs.

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PA School District Funding Hibernating

I wanted to know how school funding in Philadelphia compares to the rest of the state. The state Department of Education publishes enrollment and expenditure figures for every school district in the state. Here are some graphs of these data.

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School District of Philadelphia Budget - Data Liberation and Visualization Hibernating

The School District of Philadelphia posts budgets for their schools on their website. However, this data is in PDF format and therefore cannot be easily used by developers and others interested in examining the budgets of schools in a programmatic fashion.

This project aims to do 2 things. First, convert the budgets to a RESTful API for others to use. Second, to visualize the budget data in a meaningful way for the community.

The code used to generate data for an API is available on https://github.com/philasdbudget/philasdbudget….

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PhillyBudget Commenting

PhillyBudget

Data Set

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=1q0fWW4CfN17d1ilkpoLyzZBAR7oshoK0EHOS4MU

Git Hub Repository for Generating Data

https://github.com/bengarvey/budget

Team Members

Ajmal Ahmady Lloyd Emelle