Mastodawn

Devin Thakker explains: What Makes Civic Data So Hard to Structure. https://devinthakker.com/blog/what-makes-civic-data-hard-to-structure #CivicData #DemocracyTech

What Makes Civic Data So Hard to Structure

Why local government information is so difficult to organize well, and what I have learned from turning messy agendas, meetings, committees, and local issues into usable product surfaces at The Common News.

Devin Thakker

KSM Sachsen May 26

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Phildini, since young times Apr 7

Sometimes you're casually adding new sites to @[email protected] and you add some city in #Massachusetts you've never heard of and then you've added 5000 more documents to the index 😂 The well of #CivicData is so deep and so wide and we've only started dipping our toes in.

phildini Apr 7

Sometimes you're casually adding new sites to @civicband and you add some city in #Massachusetts you've never heard of and then you've added 5000 more documents to the index 😂

The well of #CivicData is so deep and so wide and we've only started dipping our toes in.

CivicBand Mar 20

Oh hey another one: #BeverlyHills has posted no #CityCouncil minutes for this year.

Curious

#CivicData #OpenData

CivicBand Mar 20

Marin County has posted no minutes for the Board of Supervisors meetings for this whole year.

Extremely weird.

#MarinCounty #CivicData #OpenData

CivicBand Mar 20

Continuing our deep dive, it looks like #Washington Township, #Indiana, stopped publishing City Council minutes? Anyone from around there want to investigate for us?

#CivicData #OpenData

CivicBand Mar 18

We're digging in to the sites that have fallen out of date, and apparently #BirminghamAL just stopped posting minutes in 2024? Not sure why? Anyone who lives there and wants to help us dig in, reach out!

#OpenData #CivicData

skry Jan 11

“The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. We expect these datasets to be used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, and policymakers.“

"We obtain immigration enforcement data from the U.S. government, primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests.”

https://deportationdata.org/
#uspol #journalism #CivicData

Deportation Data Project

phildini Dec 31

Getting a last blog post in under the wire for 2025: https://phildini.dev/the-body-politic

#OpenData #CivicData #OpenGov