SpotCrime Supplies Crime Data for Hackathons Nationwide
As coding and developing becomes more and more popular, hacakthons are becoming an innovative way to create solutions to every day problems. A hackathon (a mix of the words 'hack' and 'marathon') is when programmers and software developers gather together to collaboratively code over a very short period of time, typically a quick as a day or as long as a week. The main goal of a hackathon is to create usable software, apps, and sometimes hardware In 2011, US Congress hosted it's first hackathon on December 7 at the Capitol Visitors Center. The event showed how political leadership agrees on the importance and power of technology when mixed with open data. Most of the time, this results in cool and useful apps and resources for residents. These civic hackathons are becoming more popular, popping up all over the US and happening more and more often. Cities are beginning to host their very own hacakthons where local residents use public city data to solve iss