Tut-Hack on Immigration

[Claudia Nunez]

Hi folks, 
Join us at our Chicago Migrahack (tutorial/hackathon)

Friday, May 31, 2013 9:00 AM

to Sunday, June 2, 2013, 4:00 PM

Venue: CIBOLA TECH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCUBATOR

1647 S Blue Island St (Near 18th & Loomis), Chicago, IL

Best insight team project: $1,500 
Best data visualization team project: $1,500 
2nd place data visualization team project: $1,000 
Audience Favorite: $500 
PLUS: Best storytelling with data visualization (animations and infographics are welcome!): $2,500

WEBSITE: http://www.chicagomigrahack.com/ 
Registration Page: http://chicagomigrahack.eventbrite.com/

We will split the 3-day event into a tutorial for newbies and experts (mainly around using Fusion Tables, Tableau, D3), and hackathon for those who want to tool with the data

Dates/Times: 
Workshops, Friday, May 31, 2013 MIXER AT 6:00PM AND THE CHICAGO MIGRAHACK BEGINS!

Developers, meet your Migrahack journalist collaborators and start your engines to fuel one project to hack together. Complete your work by 4:00pm Sunday June 2nd. and present it to the judges and other Migrahack teams.

(We will form the teams and select the topic to hack, during the mixer)

Event Focus: Form a team to build an informative data visualization project (maps, interactive graphic) using open data on immigration.

Data Sets: The organizers will provide the data for the hackathon. The data will be in CSV and Excel formats to speed up the event. Data links also.

Cost: Event is free and we will cover the food, but space is limited. Act quickly to take advantage!

CONTACT: http://www.chicagomigrahack.com/