Emergency Design Collective wants to hear your thoughts on voting + staying safe in the pandemic. 😷🗳 💬 Share your input + participate in a design research project to uncover opportunities for health interventions to ensure safe elections during #COVID19. 👉 Survey: edc.care/safevoting

I released a new legaltech Python library called Legislice. Use it to download, compare, and export passages from the United States Code and the Constitution. Documentation: legislice.readthedocs.io

I wrote a blog post about setting up a legislation API: "Serving US Legislative Markup Docs as JSON Using Django" pythonforlaw.com/2020/09/15/bui…

Our latest blog post is about scraping eviction court case records open-austin.org/blog/2020/11/1…

Come join my team! 🎉 Help make city code digestible + improve City services thru content strategy ✨ U.S. DOGE Service Austin City Jobs @civiqueso Open Austin @18F Imagine Austin AIGA Austin Nava Public Benefit Corporation Austin Design Week 👀

Kathy Mitchell pushes for criminal justice reform as part of our list of 20 people we we're thankful for in 2020. austinchronicle.com/features/2020-…

If you're interested in the connections between gender, transportation and culture, here's an online library with articles, studies, podcasts, etc. I've collected in an effort to understand these intersections better. bit.ly/GenderTranspor…

volunteers Texas Justice Initiative have been at work for months on building a new landing page to catalog our growing list of interactive data tools. At long last, here it is: texasjusticeinitiative.org/data

If you're a data scientist looking to volunteer your talents, start local! You'll have a bigger impact, especially if you can stick around for a while. If you're in Austin, be sure to check out Open Austin - @hongsupshin at #AustinPython

Transportation authorities have spent billions widening urban freeways to fight traffic, to no avail, writes @davidzipper. What makes the "iron law of congestion" so hard to defeat? trib.al/ziRcDBL

Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon: helping non-profits break down technical barriers. #civic #hacking #openaustin

This coming Wednesday is our first in-person CAN (in a long time)! More details available on the Meetup event, and special thanks to The Zebra for hosting us! Fun starts at 6:30. meetup.com/Open-Austin/ev…

First in-person CAN in over two years.. SUCCESS!! Thanks again to The Zebra for donating their space and time :)

Us: What decision could you have made better, if you had had the data? Our county's elected women: LET ME TELL YOU Honored to engage with Rep. Vikki Goodwin Council Member Alison Alter Judge Aurora Martinez Jones Brigid Shea @drgloriaggd at Austin Public Library #civics #civicengagement #AustinTx #localpolitics

We'll meet this Wednesday to push further on our active projects. All projects are created through partnerships with other community non-profits. Be a part of the action. meetup.com/Open-Austin/ev…

We’ll have some exciting news to announce in early August. Stay tuned!

Our next Community Action Night (CAN) is coming up! When :: This Wednesday (07/13) @ 6:45pm Where :: The Zebra offices (thx 🦓!!!) meetup.com/open-austin/ev…

Get ready for record high temps this afternoon. Highs: 106-112° Heat index: 110-115° Cooling center info: austintexas.gov/alerts ERCOT is asking Texans to voluntarily conserve energy during peak times. Here’s what you can do:

Thanks to everyone who showed up to work on our Affordability/Displacement and Indigent Defense data projects at our Community Action Night!

Come to the Open Austin AURA: An Austin for Everyone social! Celebrate data-informed advocacy for affordable housing and other economic challenges 🙌🏽 meetup.com/open-austin/ev… #atx #austintexas #hacking #meetup #equity #data #dataforgood #civichacking #civictech #democracy #socialimpact #urbanism