Data Science in the Milwaukee Community

There are a lot of awesome projects going on in the Milwaukee community. If you can help to make our home a better place, contact the organizers and offer your skills!

Code for Milwaukee

In Spring 2019, we founded Code for Milwaukee (https://codeformilwaukee.org/), a non-profit, non-partisan organization with the mission of enhancing the delivery of public services to improve the lives of Milwaukeeans. Code for Milwaukee (CfM) is a Code for America brigade, and the only one in Wisconsin.

Visit CfM events

We (at CfM) been hosting at least one event every month to help build partnerships between community organizers and tech-savvy individuals, and to build tools to help make Milwaukee a safer, healthier, and more fun city to live in. Whether you’re a software developer, community organizer, government employee, local businessperson, artist or storyteller, or a civic geek of any kinds and colors, you should stop by one of our events! We aim to create an open and inclusive atmosphere.

We list our upcoming events on Meetup - so please swing on by whenever you’re available!

If you’d like to see a friendly face when you arrive, or worried if this is “for you”, or have any questions whatsoever, please email or tweet or just get in touch with me. I am happy to help!

More projects?

Data Science Projects in Milwaukee

• Explore property sales/assessments in the city at: http://mprop.mitchellhenke.com/#/
  • Stretch goal: analyze how accurate assessments are relative to future sales
• Explore a cataloge of MKE Police dispatch call log at: https://mke-police.herokuapp.com/
• Check out the Milwaukee Data Initiative, An advocacy workgroup to change the way Milwaukee uses and shares critical data.
  • Attend the next Meetup event and join the cause!

Here are some organizations relating to publicly available MKE data:

• Milwaukee Open Data Portal
  • JSOnline article:: How Milwaukee’s Open Data Portal could transform the city — if it takes the right steps
• MKE Data Day 2018
• City of MKE announcements
• Data You Can Use: MKE NNIP partner

Recurrent events for MKE coders:

Here are some of the Meetup groups and events that I like:

• MKE Hacker Hours: A few coders get together to work on their own side projects at Anodyne on Bruce Street, about twice a month.
• Rokkincat’s Hack N Tell series: A quarterly event,
  • Hack & Tell is an eight hour event in which a bunch of people sit in the same room, eat delicious food, and make something. There is no need for business models, customer validation, or precise pitches with highly designed slide decks. The purpose of this hackathon is to hang out and team up with other developers and designers for the sake of making something awesome.
• Big Data Wisconsin annual event: to help nurture and grow the state of Big Data use and expertise right here in Wisconsin. 2017 website
• Some other great Meetup groups:
  • MKE Big Data
  • MKE Machine Learning
  • MKE Data Science

Other Milwaukee News

Here are some things I enjoyed learning about, and I think are worth sharing

• We Got This MKE
  • JSOnline article: In Milwaukee’s poorest ZIP code, fruits and vegetables become powerful weapons for saving young boys
  • MKE Community Journal article: Andre Ellis’ We Got This Holds Community Gallery Event
• ZIP MKE
  • ZIP MKE is a grassroots community engagement project created in October 2016 that uses photography to
    • celebrate all 28 ZIP Codes in the city,
      
    • engage & connect communities, and
    • expand social perspectives by diminishing preconceived assumptions.
• Progressive Community Health Centers
  • Since 1999, Progressive Community Health Centers has provided high quality, comprehensive health care and social services to patients of all ages and incomes for Milwaukee area residents.
• ACTS Housing:
  • ACTS serves diverse families throughout Milwaukee’s inner city. Most home owners purchase formerly vacant, vandalized foreclosures.Usually rehab costs are less than demolition and new owners save hundreds on their monthly housing costs.
• Addressing Health From All Angles in Milwaukee
• Smart Cities Wisconsin
• 200 Nights of Freedom was the central program of the March On Milwaukee 50th anniversary commemoration of the 1967-1968 marches demanding an end to housing segregation.

Misc Data Science for Social Good

• Chi Hack Night Chicago’s weekly event to build, share & learn about civic tech