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Presentation by 18F of the FBI's new Crime Data Explorer!
Making the nations crime data more accessible: Challenges & lessons learned from working with the FBI on their first open source project.
18F, a design consultancy within the federal government, recently partnered with the FBI to make crime data more accessible to the general public. This is data the FBI collects from nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies from across the country as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program.
18F helped the FBI design & build a new service, called the Crime Data Explorer (CDE), that makes this dataset more transparent & easier to work with. The CDE consists of a web interface for viewing high-level trends at the national, state, & local levels, as well as bulk downloads & an open API for more detailed views of the data.
You can view the CDE at https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/ & check out our public repo at: https://github.com/18F/crime-data-explorer.
Amber & Larry will share their lessons learned from working with the FBI on their first open source project & offer a few strategies for working with government entities that are new to agile & human centered design.
Fore more information on the project, check out the CDE at https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/ & our public repo at: https://github.com/18F/crime-data-explorer.
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Schedule
6:00p doors open, socialize & eat dinner
6:30p welcome remarks, project pitches, & Crime Data Explorer Presentation
7:00p start hacking or stay for new member orientation
8:00p more hacking
9:00p keep on hacking
10:00p doors close & lights out.
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