Recap: San Francisco Public Data Hackathon

Last weekend, Hex and Modelbit hosted a San Francisco public data hackathon at their office downtown. The event brought together a hundred curious data people to explore public municipal datasets from the San Francisco Open Data portal. Participants were given free Hex and Modelbit accounts and set loose on the data. Twenty teams submitted finished projects that ranged from Vision Pro data apps to careful analysis of sidewalk width variance. The winning project analyzed traffic accidents in the city over the last 18 years, building a model that provides an aggregated risk level for every intersection along a route. The runner-up project combined movie film locations and SF Muni bus routes, creating an app that helps users locate famous film locations on their chosen bus route or find transit directions to their favorite San Francisco film location.