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Data Mini-Hackathon for Lobbying
October 29, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
Want to dig into Whole Washington’s data to enable more data-informed conversations at the legislative district level? Help look through geographic data, spreadsheets of legislators and whether they’ve endorsed, and signature counts by district.
Our goals:
* Strategic targeting of districts where our efforts are most likely to yield results
* Clear and live-updating sheets of information constituents can use to pressure their state representatives
Who should come?
We will be using spreadsheets, R code, GIS systems, and internet resources such as Ballotpedia. If you don’t know *all* of these technologies, please don’t be scared off! You should be able to contribute usefully even if you’re only comfortable looking at spreadsheets and thinking about strategy. If you want to learn any of this technology, please come— bring a laptop if you have one. Your data director has a long history of teaching tech, from computer basics to programming & electronic hardware, and would be delighted to show you the ropes!
We will meet at Uptown Espresso Belltown: 2504 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98121
See you there!
