Presentation by Bruce Haupt on May 14, 2013 to the NetSquared Houston organization. Includes additional project ideas (snapshots) and links to projects from other Cities. UPLOADED FROM http://data.codeforhouston.com/dataset/project-hackathon-netsquared-presentation

1. 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

2. 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?

4. 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?

7. 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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http://www.houstonhackathon.com/

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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/

14. 14Dataset: http://data.codeforhouston.com/ (Data coming soon!)
http://lookatcook.com/

15. 15https://www.auntbertha.com/

16. 16http://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

21. 21Dataset: http://data.codeforhouston.com/dataset/city-of-houston-fee-schedule
http://cohapp.cityofhouston.gov/FIN_FeeSchedule/default.aspx

22. 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