Compelling, data-driven narratives and tools for exploration and data preparation. Search and browse all political contributions, expenditures, and candidates. In statewide and local New Mexico races. An interactive map showing spending on incarceration. For every block in the City of Chicago. We worked with the City of Chicago and neighborhood groups to improve and scale up a program for selling land to residents.

I use data, build tools, and organize people in Chicago to democratize power. During the day, I run DataMade. We build open source technology using data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations. I run the Chi Hack Night.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018. Justice Map - Visualize Race and Income Data. Today included a Tweet that introduced me to the JusticeMap. The screen shot at the left shows African American population in the US as a percent of total population. It includes tools for data journalists, bloggers and community activists. Hay mucha más data para cruzar.

Civic apps built with open data. Open City was a volunteer group that created civic apps. To improve transparency and understanding of our government in Chicago. We are no longer actively releasing apps under Open City, but the work continues and thrives every Tuesday night at Chi Hack Night. All of our projects are open source. And free to use under the MIT license.