HackIllinois City of Champaign Collaboration

From the News-Gazette today:

Hackers to improve city services
As more than a thousand students gather from around the country this weekend for HackIllinois, a portion of them will be hacking data from the city to improve its services.

The city is providing several years’ worth of public works, geospatial and service request data, with the hope that students can find patterns and correlations in all of it that will help the city.

“We supplied some data, and it’s up to their imagination to see what they can come up with,” said Mark Toalson, Champaign’s IT director...

Full article here.