Research:
- Improve the data source references:
- Add other states (references > data_sources > your_state.md)
- Independent / non-governmental data sources (references > data_sources > non_governmental.md)
- Improve tutorial on “How to make a data request”
- Add example data request language
- Legal research & resources on open data laws
Data analysis (notebooks):
- "Peer review" an existing data analysis notebook. Using one of the notebooks as a template, try to recreate the analysis using your own data.
- Does it work?
- Does the data dictionary make sense? (If not, add improvements)
- Expand on it and share it back to the repo!
- Create a new reproducible data analysis (notebook template + data dictionary) on a topic not already covered. Share it back to the repo (including an .HTML file in the reports/ folder).
- Use of force
- Police personnel records
- Hate crimes data
UI:
- Improve the repository’s UI
- Need a nice interface to help people find:
- reports
- tutorials
- data dictionaries
Other:
- Archiving data
- Add a new tutorial on “How to archive data”
- After you’ve requested data, how do you store it responsibly?
TODO advice on best way to manage this
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We start with special hackathon branches:
- hackathon_research: working primarily in notebooks/ and reports/
- hackathon_data_analysis: working primarily in references/
- hackathon_ui: as needed for the interface
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Participants fork the branch they want to work on.
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They submit a pull request to the branch in our main repository.
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We merge at the end!