An example-driven tutorial on Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana using Kansas City Open Data
Open data is wonderful but simply making the data available is not enough. News media, civic hackers, and advocacy groups have done a lot of great work to use open data to expose inefficiencies in government expenditures, highlight the role of SuperPACs on campaign financing and more. Unfortunately, a lot of this analysis requires knowing how to write code, from writing SQL queries to developing D3-based visualizations in Javascript. Open data should be accessible to people who don't know how to code. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED