Unlock the Power of the City of Detroit Open Data Portal
This event is in the past.
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
As part of the Libraries' Open Access Week events taking place during the week of Oct. 21, we will be hosting Djennin Casab, the city of Detroit's Open Data Portal community engagement specialist, who will teach participants why open data is crucial for government accountability, transparency and digital empowerment. Do you know about open data? If you don't, you should!
Explore the available tools and datasets, learn how to navigate the Detroit Open Data Portal, how to search, download and filter datasets according to your specific needs and interests. Engage with the data and visualization artistic community! Learn about the Detroit Open Data Portal signature programs -Detroit Open Data Day Challenge (spring) and Visualizing Detroit: The Art of Data (fall).
Unleash your creativity and create data visualizations to tell a story using datasets from the ODP or your daily life!
Contact
Marianne Bracke
hs9072@wayne.edu