We're team OpenUpData, or more accurately I am. A solo team consisting of John Volock from Albuquerque, NM. I've been interested in computer and programming as long as I can remember, back to QBasic and Windows 3.1, and have a degree in Computer Science and have been working in the field for a few years.
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| This is my first online hackathon, and first one since I graduated from school. I'm currently working on building a portfolio of personal projects, and am looking forward to having something to show here! I've always enjoyed coding in my spare time and do a lot of it, though not anything web-based, and very little of it do I post online, so I'm looking forward to this new challenge. |
Web application developement is new to me, so definitely going to be an adventure. There's such a plethora of Data Sets available from the White House data initiative, so I'm planning on building a quick framework and interactive viewer for playing with/building visualizations from this data, and to allow easy importing and exporting to some of the most common tools (Matlab, R, SPSS, etc). I think getting the data more accessible and easily viewed is a big first step in getting the worlds problems better seen.