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* <b>What to bring</b> You will need to bring your own laptop and power supply. Also, bring any challenging civic data sets you've been wanting to wrangle.
* <b>What to bring</b> You will need to bring your own laptop and power supply. Also, bring any challenging civic data sets you've been wanting to wrangle.
* <b>We'll supply</b> the WiFi, the plugs, and collaboration and brainstorming materials like post-its, sharpies, etc.
* <b>We'll supply</b> the WiFi, the plugs, and collaboration and brainstorming materials like post-its, sharpies, etc.
==== Project needs/wants ====
Heading into Sunday, here are some of the requests people had for assistance with their projects.
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c461171b2e34fe0a000002 "Judgmental" Court Decision Scraper] - could use help creating an easy search/index. Would like to do search with elasta search or AWS, have experience with sphinx/solr, but want to do something easier.
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c60d31fc1f16342100073c CivOmega] - anybody with better ideas about taking sentences and making them into queries rather than just using regular expressions, e.g. natural language processing
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c629d8fc1f163421003057 Open Gov Data Guide] - if anyone has a particular data set they'd want to share, please add it. Any good examples of environmental data, talk to Saul.
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c37d52f64f402975004b6d NY Drug Price Data] - expert at data analysis, would like to know most optimal way to pick intervals for coloring and do data normalization.
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c61ccbfc1f1634210015d3 OpenOpenNewsNews] - help from person who is interested in data visualization.
* [http://onmit.hackdash.org/p/51c5f133fc1f163421000071 DemocracyMap API] - help with naming the project.- Help with leaflet.js, postgis, javascript building out mapping


==== Schedule ====
==== Schedule ====
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