OpenGov Chicago: Knight News Challenge
Channel: Christopher Whitaker
Date: 26/02/2013

Video recording of the OpenGov Chicago meeting on 2/26/2013. 

Meeting Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kj7Qm-wFdNBxQhR64DeON_8f-R3cp5LZPWWGNwz3zAU/edit  

Agenda: (Location in video shown by the (0:00) min mark) 

0:00 Tom Schenk Jr, Director of Analytics at the City of Chicago talks about the Bloomberg Mayor's Challenge and why you should vote for Chicago. Tom also announced that the city is hiring data scientists to help harness civic data to improve the city. 

9:00 Sebastian James, New Media Director at Cook County announces the county's involvement on Big Data Week. (http://bigdataweek.com/)

12:00 Knight Lab presentation by Miranda Mulligan and Joe Germuska (http://knightlab.northwestern.edu/site/) 

29:00 Matthew Green talks about data journalism at WBEZ 

50:00 The Knight News Challenge: John Bracken talks about the #opengov Knight News Challenge which is awarding $5 million dollars towards open government innovation projects.