Hack Austin

Data enthusiasts, developers, designers, analysts, data scientists, and data engineers are invited to tackle health and safety challenges for the City of Austin. Hack Austin, a civic and data driven hackathon is part of the City Council’s strategic planning outcomes.

The City of Austin strives to create a complete community where every Austinite has choices at every stage of life that allows the City to experience and contribute to all of the following strategic outcomes:

• Economic Opportunity and Affordability: Having economic opportunities and resources that enable us to thrive in our community.

• Mobility: Getting us where we want to go, when we want to get there, safely and cost-effectively.

• Safety: Being safe in our home, at work, and in our community.

• Health and Environment: Enjoying a sustainable environment and a healthy life, physically and mentally.

• Cultural and Lifelong Learning: Being enriched by Austin’s unique civic, cultural, ethnic, and learning opportunities.

• Government that works for all of us: Believing that city government works effectively and collaboratively for all of us that it is equitable, ethical and innovative.

Hack Austin is made possible through a collaboration among the City of Austin’s Communications and Technology Management Department, the Office of Performance Management, and the Telecommunications and Regulatory Affairs Department. Led by the City of Austin, in partnership with Galvanize, US Ignite and Open Austin, the hackathon is focused on applications that provide transformative public benefit.

Topics 💬

Health 🚶 🏃 🏥

• How to optimize physical health within the City of Austin.
• How to improve mental and behavioral health for Austinites.

Safety 🚓 🚑

• How to improve emergency response times within the City.
• Analyze the environment where officer involved shooting incidents occur.

Datasets Available on The Austin Open Data Portal (data.austintexas.gov):

• Austin Public Health - https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?category=Health+and+Community+Services&limitTo=datasets&page=1
• Austin Public Health Locations - https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?category=Health+and+Community+Services&limitTo=datasets&page=1
• Officer Involved Shooting Data- https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=OIS&sortBy=relevance
• 311 Unified Data - https://data.austintexas.gov/Utilities-and-City-Services/311-Unified-Data/i26j-ai4z/data
• Austin Code Complaint Cases- https://data.austintexas.gov/City-Government/Austin-Code-Complaint-Cases/6wtj-zbtb/data#column-menu
• Austin Police Department Data- https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=apd&sortBy=relevance&anonymous=true
• Emergency Medical Services Data- https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=ems&sortBy=relevance&anonymous=true
• Austin Fire Department Data- https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=AFD&sortBy=relevance&anonymous=true
• Austin Transportation Data - https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets&q=transportation
• City of Austin Building Permit Data - https://data.austintexas.gov/browse?q=building+permits

ShapeFiles Available on The Austin Open Data Portal (data.austintexas.gov):

• Single Member Council District - https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Single-Member-Council-Districts/69pm-tzkv
• City of Austin Street Segment - https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c
• Sidewalk Network - https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Public-Works-Sidewalk-Network/ea6n-pgcf
• Police Stations - https://data.austintexas.gov/Public-Safety/Map-of-Austin-Police-Stations/fsgj-5xyt
• Austin Fire Department Stations - https://data.austintexas.gov/Public-Safety/Austin-Fire-Station-Map/szku-46rx
• City of Austin Parks - https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/City-Of-Austin-Parks/99qw-4ixs
• Urban Trails - https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Urban-Trails/bxbe-ndaw
• Bicycle Facilities - https://data.austintexas.gov/dataset/Austin-Bicycle-Facilities/kfe9-st9c
• B-Cycle Trips - https://data.austintexas.gov/Transportation-and-Mobility/Austin-B-Cycle-Trips/tyfh-5r8s
• Large Shapefiles - https://austintexas.app.box.com/s/8ah8itbha7u6lis9eipypnz5ljvwta4t

Additonal Datasets

• Austin Transportation Data Inventory - http://atd.knack.com/data-inventory#open-data-inventory/
• City of Austin's GIS Feature Service Directory - http://services.arcgis.com/0L95CJ0VTaxqcmED/ArcGIS/rest/services/
• API Documentation for GIS Feature Service Directory - http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Feature_Service/02r3000000z2000000/
• Address Locator - http://www.austintexas.gov/gis/rest/Geocode/COA_Address_Locator/GeocodeServer
• Place Locator - http://www.austintexas.gov/GIS/REST/Geocode/COA_Composite_Locator/GeocodeServer
• API Documentation for the Locators - http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Geocode_Service/02r3000000q9000000/
• National Centers for Environmental Information - https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
• Texas Department of State Health Services Mortality Data - http://healthdata.dshs.texas.gov/VitalStatistics/Death
• Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission Data - https://www.tabc.state.tx.us/PublicInquiry/Roster.aspx

Data.world Projects

• (Project) Predicting animal adoptions in the Austin animal shelter - https://data.world/rdowns26/austin-animal-shelter
• (Project) Texas campaign contribution data - https://data.world/zach/texas-data
• (Project) Austin Crime Report from 2015 - https://data.world/dash/austin-crime-report-2015
• (Project) Police Traffic Stop Records from the U.S. state of Texas 2006–2015 - https://data.world/dataneer/tsopp-tx
• (Project) Number of female speakers at meetup events - https://data.world/flexyford/wespeaktoo

Strategic Plan

• City of Austin Strategic Plan Metrics - https://austinstrategicplan.bloomfire.com/posts/1491009-council-strategy-workshop-iv-on-metrics-11-30-17
• Safety Challenge Statement - https://austinstrategicplan.bloomfire.com/series/40208/posts/1488461
• Health Challenge Statement - https://austinstrategicplan.bloomfire.com/series/40208/posts/1481598

Databases of Deaths in Custody and Officer-Involved Shooting Incidents

• Info about this Dataset
• Dataset

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