Open Austin

We use data, engineering, and product thinking to support local gov and orgs, to make Austin a more liveable, equitable city.

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[Open Austin @openaustin]

Come to the @openaustin @AURAatx social! Celebrate data-informed advocacy for affordable housing and other economic challenges 🙌🏽

https://t.co/I5Yne5cqAR

#atx #austintexas #hacking #meetup #equity #data #dataforgood #civichacking #civictech #democracy #socialimpact #urbanism

[Open Austin @openaustin]

Thanks to everyone who showed up to work on our Affordability/Displacement and Indigent Defense data projects at our Community Action Night!

[Austin Energy @austinenergy]

Get ready for record high temps this afternoon.

Highs: 106-112°
Heat index: 110-115°

Cooling center info: https://t.co/0BscidGben

@ERCOT_ISO is asking Texans to voluntarily conserve energy during peak times. Here’s what you can do:

[Open Austin @openaustin]

Our next Community Action Night (CAN) is coming up!

When :: This Wednesday (07/13) @ 6:45pm
Where :: @TheZebraCo offices (thx 🦓!!!)

https://t.co/5DX82pQBZ0

[Open Austin @openaustin]

We’ll have some exciting news to announce in early August. Stay tuned!

[Open Austin @openaustin]

We'll meet this Wednesday to push further on our active projects. All projects are created through partnerships with other community non-profits.

Be a part of the action.

https://t.co/zfbqFSAe0H

[Open Austin @openaustin]

Us: What decision could you have made better, if you had had the data?
Our county's elected women: LET ME TELL YOU

Honored to engage with @VikkiGoodwinTX @ALTERforATX @JudgeAurora @CommishShea @drgloriaggd at @AustinPublicLib

#civics #civicengagement #AustinTx #localpolitics

[Open Austin @openaustin]

First in-person CAN in over two years.. SUCCESS!!

Thanks again to @TheZebraCo for donating their space and time :)

[Open Austin @openaustin]

This coming Wednesday is our first in-person CAN (in a long time)! More details available on the Meetup event, and special thanks to @TheZebraCo for hosting us! Fun starts at 6:30.

https://t.co/N0a4bTQQlg

[Open Austin @openaustin]

Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon: helping non-profits break down technical barriers.

#civic #hacking #openaustin

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

Transportation authorities have spent billions widening urban freeways to fight traffic, to no avail, writes @davidzipper.

What makes the "iron law of congestion" so hard to defeat? https://t.co/3OE4wJluGx

[Dillon Niederhut PhD is at #SciPy2026 @dillonniederhut]

If you're a data scientist looking to volunteer your talents, start local! You'll have a bigger impact, especially if you can stick around for a while. If you're in Austin, be sure to check out @openaustin

- @hongsupshin at #AustinPython

[Grecia White @Grecia_White]

If you're interested in the connections between gender, transportation and culture, here's an online library with articles, studies, podcasts, etc. I've collected in an effort to understand these intersections better.

https://t.co/ruLgx0FZ2G

[Eva Ruth Moravec @EvaRuth]

volunteers @JusticeTexas have been at work for months on building a new landing page to catalog our growing list of interactive data tools. At long last, here it is: https://t.co/6kDM7dXyiw

[Austin Chronicle @AustinChronicle]

Kathy Mitchell pushes for criminal justice reform as part of our list of 20 people we we're thankful for in 2020. https://t.co/JfyHWAqkCf

[Vicky Pridgen @vickypridgen]

Come join my team! 🎉 Help make city code digestible + improve City services thru content strategy ✨ @USDS @AustinCityJobs @civiqueso @openaustin @18F @ImagineAustin @aigaaustin @NavaPBC @atxdesignweek 👀

[Open Austin @openaustin]

Our latest blog post is about scraping eviction court case records https://t.co/J5GNSe1C9C

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

I wrote a blog post about setting up a legislation API: "Serving US Legislative Markup Docs as JSON Using Django" https://t.co/IKCFQ450tj

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

I released a new legaltech Python library called Legislice. Use it to download, compare, and export passages from the United States Code and the Constitution. Documentation: https://t.co/v0F4Vp3i5a

[Vicky Pridgen @vickypridgen]

@EmergDesign wants to hear your thoughts on voting + staying safe in the pandemic. 😷🗳

💬 Share your input + participate in a design research project to uncover opportunities for health interventions to ensure safe elections during #COVID19.

👉 Survey: https://t.co/kCVkoriRxJ