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What happened at the first ever California Data Camp? <a href="http://blog.spot.us/2009/11/07/liveblogging-from-california-data-camp-app-contest/">A live blog of the event from Spot.Us.</a> The event was attended by roughly 100 people at Citizen Space in downtown San Francisco. The hashtag for the event was <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23CAdata">#CAdata</a> and one can construct the day's events here as well. We will soon have a professionally edited video of the day. Stay tuned!  (Scot Hacker and Chuck Harris - winners of the DataSF App contest: See all photos - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29792566@N08/sets/72157622760630570/">over 44 pictures on Flickr.</a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29792566@N08/sets/72157622760630570/">)<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/4086451380_28e752d98e.jpg" alt="" width="450" /></a> Sessions included <ul> <li>A primer on getting data (<a href="http://techliminal.com/data-primer-report-from-the-california-data-camp/">live blogged by TechLiminal</a>)</li> <li>Discussion of immigration data in California (see photo of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29792566@N08/4086557354/in/set-72157622760630570/">immigration data wish list</a>)</li> <li>A discussion on stimulus data lead by Bill Allison of the <a href="http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/">Sunlight Foundation</a>.</li> <li>A discussion on crime data</li> <li>Read <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tanja-aitamurto/sophisticated-tree-huggin_b_351743.html">a wrap-up from the Huffington Post</a>.</li> <li>and much more....</li> </ul> Craig Newmark joined us and <a href="http://www.cnewmark.com/2009/11/data-camp-sf.html">took note of the important work being done</a>. <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2448/4086453092_f16b2a68bf.jpg" alt="" width="450" /> Apps built during the day Winner of the DataSF App contest: Tree Data: A web App for municipal tree tracking with the goal to <ul> <li>Make it easy for citizens to explore and discover the huge number of plant species and individual trees maintained by the city.</li> <li>Make it easy for citizens to “flag” a tree as needing maintenance, water, food, etc.</li> <li>Make it easy for citizens to request a tree at a particular location</li> <li>Provide data visualization tools to let citizens explore and understand the plant variety visually.</li> <li>Make it easy to see what a given species will look like in 5,10,15,20 years when requesting a tree.</li> <li>Ideally, a future version of the app would include ecology data on all species, listing the water consumption and carbon offset of each.</li> </ul> <a href="http://birdhouse.org/software/2009/11/django-treedata/">Details from Scot Hacker</a>. <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4091083624_a8f952e0e2.jpg" alt="" width="450" /> For handicapped parking Two apps centered around finding Blue Zones in the city. Silver ribbon winner (prize sponsored by <a href="http://www.mobclix.com/">MobClix</a>): A geo spatial app that allowed you to hold your phone up to find the nearest trees, crimes and blue zones. You could also add a layer to find the closest species of a tree or a type of crime. If looking for handicapped parking, just spin your phone around you 360 degrees and you'll find the closest space. <a href="http://porcupinealley.com/2009/nov/7/fun-layars/">Details on how this app came about from Josh Livni</a>. <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2461/4091318319_b6c940e4ac.jpg" alt="" width="450" /> <a href="http://bit.ly/1iMPME">Blue Zone Application</a>: Find the nearest handicapped parking space while on the go. "The full source is downloadable from the app link.  It's all client-side javascript, so it can be run locally, or anywhere you can view a basic HTML page." Produced by Mark Shervey <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4090549593_60cdb882f9.jpg" alt="" width="450" /> <a href="http://www.afterschoolsf.org/">After School Special</a>: By Gabe Scelta of <a href="http://zapsqueak.com">zapsqueak.com</a> built in one day. <a href="http://www.zapsqueak.com/blog/54-afterschoolsforg-launched">More about the After School Special</a>. The site uses school sets from <a href="http://www.datasf.org/">datasf.org</a> and combines them with library and food information from <a href="http://finder.geocommons.com/">GeoCommons</a>. It is a PHP application with a simple admin area and a MySQL database behind it. Ultimately I'd love to expand this out so that more discreet data can be shown. If have a relevant dataset, have suggestions or happen to have a lot of time to enter address data into the database <a href="http://www.zapsqueak.com/contact-us/">please let me know</a>. <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/4090317017_bfc6ffff15.jpg" alt="" width="450" />

Screenshot of an Application built at California Data Camp by zapsqueak.com

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