Code for DC 2021 National Day of Civic Hacking
Be a part of a day of collective action to reimagine the 911 emergency response system to be truly human-centered.
Code for DC will host a hackathon to focus on a 911 data collection.
Learn more at: https://www.codeforamerica.org/national-day-of-civic-hacking/ndoch-2021/#frequently-asked-questions
DC Fire EMS likes to post their stats day to day, i.e. (https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1435263503011663879) but there is no dataset for researchers to use to evaluate or predict their performance. The goal will be to collect all the times they tweet their stats to build a comprehensive data set on how they respond to emergencies
DCPoliceDept constantly puts out alerts on when to call 911. i.e. (https://twitter.com/search?q=(911)%20(from%3ADCPoliceDept)&src=typed_query&f=live). The goal will be to get this data and classify it to understand what type of incidents they are encouraging 911 calls for
PulsePoint provides real time emergency data across 4000+ different communites. We have collected a subset of the data over a 9 day period and would like to do analysis to gain insights on response data.