Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn whether these sorts of problems are systemic (megaspoiler: they are) and to also start mapping communication across the United States. Since then, I’ve submitted over a hundred requests for email metadata across the U...| Civic Hax
Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any! In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those area's parking tickets. In the end, I only really got one cleaned up, but it was one of the most-ticketed spots in all of Chicago and led to about a 50% reduction in parking tickets. Here's a bit of that story. Getting...| Civic Hax
A tale about requesting Chicago’s Mayor’s Office’s phone records.| mchap.io
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization| mchap.io
Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas| mchap.io