Cross-posted from the Google Developers Blog National Day of Civic Hacking . Using public data recently released by the government on topics like crime, health and the environment, developers built new applications that help address social challenges.Fusion Tables and Google App Engine were used to prototype, and groups relied on BigQuery as a workhorse to crunch the biggest datasets. Participants used Google+ Hangouts to connect with hackathons in other states and collaborated with Google Apps and platforms.
Eat Healthy for Less , the winner of our Mountain View hackathon, is a mobile web application that uses the Consumer Pricing Index to suggest healthy recipes that can be made on a budget.Data+ , a reimagining of how we access data, can make exploring public datasets more intuitive and easily understandable for everyone.Detoxic.org is a web experience and Android app that shows you toxic sites and landfills nearby that you might not know about so that you can take civic action against toxic waste.
g.co/civicdevelopers .Patrick Copeland is director of engineering at Google.org, where he works to build systems that leverage Google's reach to help people around the world.Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
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