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Prep project boards for Migration
Overview
We need to prepare the Project Boards for the forced migration that GitHub is doing in August, so that it is already working well for the team by then.
Action Items
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### Text from project board card ``` [INSERT MARKDOWN HERE] ``` - [ ] Determine where this item goes on the wiki (page and section) - [ ] copy item to wiki - [ ] hide this comment when completed. - [ ] copy markdown from a card in the "Start Here" column of the Project Board into your new comment where it says `[INSERT MARKDOWN HERE]
All issues are on the project board
- [ ] Check to see if all issues are on the project board (resource 1.02)
- [ ] If not, add them to the board, and put them in the correct columns
- [ ] Categorize (can be done later)
Resources/Instructions
Project board URLs: New board Old board
Text from project board card (Edited to format like Home Unite Us model)
### Meeting Times And Links
Every Monday at 7:00PM Pacific. No meetings on the first Monday of the month.
[Zoom Link](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87038212377?pwd=bnh3bkJGeWJ0eS94YTRzaVFhZ2Nwdz09)
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### Team Links
[Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1maraSDu5BXzCYWFubY834Nq-8AT93FUJ?usp=sharing)
[Data Science Team Roster](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJltNh1gOybfebe-RkT-xS7m4OtxbuFfaJ4OujeA4h0/edit#gid=0)
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### Handy Tools and Sites
[Full Page Screenshot Chrome ext](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gofullpage-full-page-scre/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl?hl=en)
[311 Data API Access](https://dev-api.311-data.org/docs)
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### If you need a letter confirming your participation
https://github.com/hackforla/governance/issues/61
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### Guides
We are creating guides that will help future HfLA volunteers at Hack for LA, and add to valuable shared documentation between all teams.
To contribute:
Write ideas for new guides by adding a card in the New Issue Approval column
Self-assign a guide you are interested in working on from the Prioritized Backlog column, and move it to the In Progress column
Guide Resources:
[Tracker across all Communities of Practice](https://github.com/orgs/hackforla/projects/3)
How to Gather Examples
& Interview Teams
[Formatting your draft - WIP](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-8gmeC-wnfM8C8fVvmTP1BLA2WfNjKH_XJrHB1OAV6Q/edit)
[Template for draft - WIP](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kV29V-mRPBNRRfIbYHrz05FElC02Dh6egaMANlxaZrM/copy)
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### Resources for Data Scientists
- Python Notebook
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Please check into vrms.io at the beginning of the meeting
@Sophia Alice Please update this...https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/blob/main/README.md it still says to contact Ryan on slack the meeting is on thursday and the zoom link might be wrong the open roles link goes to the old board (edited)
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# START HERE
We know this board is ugly!!!
- [Find a volunteer Opportunity](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/projects/2#card-53801792)
- [Post a volunteer Opportunity](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/projects/2#card-53801850)
- [Remove a volunteer Opportunity](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/projects/2#card-53802002)
If you know some places where we should post these opportunities please [submit Data Science channels](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7jz_Uj7Luxrlv7ObR2HFEHMDnTfwaFcXR1LYlcwbz-Pz4cw/viewform) after you check to make sure its not on the list of [existing Data Science channels we know about](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yFCDM50HiaOICZWWQI4vT3TXrqd_QRMm2uEboN38iQs/preview)
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#### Find a volunteer opportunity
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**Steps**
1. [Signup for the Hack for LA Slack Workspace](http://hackforla.org/slack)
1. If you don't already have a GitHub account, please [signup](https://github.com). We use boards like this to organize information quickly.
1. Read the role descriptions at the top of the columns, pick which is appropriate for your existing skill level
1. Read through the opportunities posted by the teams, pick one and communicate with the team by following the instructions on the opportunity cards.
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#### Post a Volunteer Opportunity
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Steps:
1. Get added to this board (reach out to Abe to be added)
1. click on the plus sign at the top of the column to start a new card under the role type your project falls under
1. If the role type dosen't exist, please make a new column and add a description ([they can be found here](https://github.com/hackforla/civic-opportunity/tree/master/roles-1))
1. Use the following format:
**Project Name**: [your project name replaces these brackets]
**Volunteer Opportunity**: [your opportunity description replaces these brackets]
**Duration**:
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel
[Read more about the project]([your project home page on hackforla.org website goes here])
**Resources:**
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#### Remove a Volunteer Opportunity
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**Steps**
1. Confirm that you are the UX or PM lead for your project and that your PM(s) wants this opportunity removed.
1. Edit the opportunity by click the three dots ... on the top right corner of the card.
1. Add ~~ at the top and the bottom of the card (eg. ~~strike this text out~~)
1. Add the Name of the person and their slack handle to the card.
1. Move to the filled column
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#### Data Scientist
This team member will be responsible for studying the datasets provided by the researcher with the intent of identifying trends. Formulating and testing hypotheses based on business needs by analyzing and modeling data. [Read more](https://github.com/hackforla/civic-opportunity/blob/master/roles-1/data-scientist.md)
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**Project Name**: Affordable Housing Access to Food Pantries
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We want to analyze to what extent affordable housing residents have access to food pantries and meal programs. To do this, we want to examine the geographic location of these housing projects in relation to their accessibility to pantries and programs.
**Tools Used**: TBD, but typically your choice of tools.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi, Karina Lopez, or Sophia Alice
**Issue:** [#181](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/181)
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**Project Name**: City of Los Angeles Evictions
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We want to analyze eviction data for the city of Los Angeles, and incorporate data from other sources, to determine whether there are actions local leaders can take to address the problem.
This is an existing project that needs the following additional tasks completed:
- Expand on existing work with additional data analysis on Native Land data.
- Create visualizations that help illustrate data
- Develop a presentation outlining findings and opportunities for additional research
**Tools Used**: TBD, but typically your choice of tools.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi, Karina Lopez, or Sophia Alice
**Issue:** [#179](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/179)
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#### Data Analyst
This team member is responsible for producing statistical breakdowns of data sets and data cleaning tasks. Emphasis on visualization and communication of data trends using tools like Tableau or RShiny. Emphasis on applied statistical techniques especially frequentist and bayesian approaches. Tech: SQL, Tableau, R, Python. [Read more](https://github.com/hackforla/civic-opportunity/blob/master/roles-1/data-analyst.md)
- [x] Determine where this item goes on the wiki (page and section) - we no longer are assigning role names to activities at HfLA, instead we are just saying this is a data science role or data role. That keeps people from dismissing opportunities without reading them because of the title.
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**Project Name**: Find data sources through the LA Controller's office
**About the Project**: We want to build a library of various local data sources so that we can initiate new data science projects for volunteers that will be useful for the local community. The LA Controller's office seems to have quite a few.
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We are looking for a committed Data Analysts to help document these data sets.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of the person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi, Karina Lopez, or Sophia Alice
**Issue:** [#178](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/178)
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**Project Name**: Active and Inactive Businesses of LA County
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We want to create a usable dataset of active and inactive businesses to perform various time series analyses (i.e. visualizing business closures during the covid pandemic).
**Tools Used**: TBD, but typically your choice of tools.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi, Karina Lopez, or Sophia Alice
**Issue:** [#182](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/182)
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#### Data Analyst: Visualization
This team member is responsible for both data analysis and producing visualizations and/or presentations that help communicate data trends. Tech: Tableau, R, RShiny, SQL
- [x] Determine where this item goes on the wiki (page and section) - we no longer are assigning role names to activities at HfLA, instead we are just saying this is a data science role or data role. That keeps people from dismissing opportunities without reading them because of the title.
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**Project Name**: Create district types reusable tool
**Volunteer Opportunity**: Data Analyst to create a tool so that each project at H4LA that renders points on a map can use District Files to help people analyze or view the data.
This is an existing project that needs the following additional tasks completed:
- Research how we will create a data set out of this info that will be self updating (meaning are there apis for these groups)
**Tools Used**: GitHub, Python, APIs
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Resources:**
**Issue:** [#118](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/118)
[#124](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/124)
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**Project Name**: Native Land Attribution
**Volunteer Opportunity**: Data Analyst to make visible the native lands that LA County occupies through geospatial visualizations, statistical data, etc. for placement on the Hack for LA website.
This is an existing project that needs the following additional tasks completed:
- Expand on existing work with additional data analysis on Native Land data.
- Create visualizations that help illustrate data
- Develop a presentation outlining findings and opportunities for additional research
**Tools Used**: Your choice of scripting language and visualization tools, Google Slides
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Resources:**
[LA County zip and city list](https://www.zip-codes.com/county/ca-los-angeles.asp)
[Native Land lookup](https://native-land.ca/)
**Issue:** [#45](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/45)
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**Project Name**: Data Science Tutorials
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We need data scientists and analysts to help create tutorials to serve as a resource for volunteers.
**Duration**: Approx. 8 hours
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Resources:**
[Text analysis](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/153)
[Data Ops](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/154)
[Stats](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/155)
[Machine Learning](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/156)
[Deep Learning](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/157)
[Data analysis with R](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/145)
[Command Line/Git](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/163)
[Python](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/162)
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#### Database Architect
- [x] Determine where this item goes on the wiki (page and section) - we no longer are assigning role names to activities at HfLA, instead we are just saying this is a data science role or data role. That keeps people from dismissing opportunities without reading them because of the title.
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[Database Architect Job board is here](https://github.com/hackforla/ops/projects/1#column-12753343)
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**Project Name:** The MERL Center
**About the Project:** The MERL Center is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning open source community under Civic Tech Structure.
**Volunteer Opportunity:** We are looking for a Data Analyst to help us create visualizations from data collected by members using various methods for articles to be published on the official MERL Center website.
**Duration:** Min 2 weeks to ongoing
**Schedule:** No regular meetings. Schedule 30 min appointments as needed between 7am-11am, M-Th
**Who to communicate your interest to:** Rabia Shaikh on Slack
**Resources:** [Example of a MERL Center article with visuals](https://merlcenter.org/caseStudies/oss-usage-east-africa/)
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**Project Name**: City of Los Angeles Arrests
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We want to analyze arrest data for the city of Los Angeles, and incorporate data from other sources, to determine whether there are actions local leaders can take to address the problem of crime.
**Tools Used**: TBD, but typically your choice of tools.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi, Karina Lopez, or Sophia Alice
**Issue:** [#180](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/180)
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**Project**: Data Science Logo and Favicon Design
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We need a designer to finish the existing work on the Data Science team logo and favicon.
Also posted in UI/UX open roles [here](https://github.com/hackforla/UI-UX/projects/3#card-78617312)
**Tools Used:** Your choice of graphic design software.
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of the person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Issue**
- [#140](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/140)
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**Project Name**: Visualize the cities in LA county that offer public 311 data sets
**Volunteer Opportunity**: Hack for LA Leadership wants to publish a map to show the amount of 311 data available in the Greater LA area
This is an existing project that needs the following additional tasks completed:
- Create a Matrix that compares the schemas from all the 311 data sets, to identify what fields each contains with a taxonomy table if necessary
- Create a plan with the Data Science team to create an appropriate visualization for the data.
**Tools Used**: Google Sheets/Excel, visualization tools
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Resources:**
**Issue:** [#22](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/22)
- [ ] This issue should be reopened until it's finished. If the current people who are working on it, don't want to finish it, they should be unassigned.
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**Project Name**: 311 Data
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We need to take a look at all the 311 request type data with no council id or council name assigned to it. In the 311 data server, the councilId has been assigned as 0 and the councilName as 'No Council' for such request types.
**Tools Used**: Your choice of data analysis and visualization tools
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #data-science
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Anupriya Jayakumar
**Resources:**
**Issue:** [#1250](https://github.com/hackforla/311-data/issues/1250)
- [ ] This issue should be reopened until it's finished. If the current people who are working on it, don't want to finish it, they should be unassigned.
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**Project Name**: Open Source Projects Data Sets
**Volunteer Opportunity**: Our data analyst will be responsible for helping Hack for LA to monitor various open source projects and create a script that will keep our listing up-to-date with information such as last active.
**Duration**: Approx. 5 to 6 hours
**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Abe Khaleghi
**Resources:**
[Issue here](https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/issues/152)
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