Awesome Civic Software

A list of resources for awesome civic software (tools | libraries | applications)

Inspired by the awesome list thing. Feel free to improve this list.

Table of Contents

• Awesome Civic
  • Libraries
  • Tools
  • Applications
  • Resources
  • Who to follow
• More awesome
• Contribution Guidelines

Libraries

Awesome libraries to help get your civic duty on

• DataTables - A jQuery Javascript plugin to help enhance table display.

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Tools

Awesome tools to help get your civic duty on

• jq A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
• Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV
• csvdedupe - Command line tool using the dedupe python library for deduplicating CSV files.
• csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV files.
• datamash - Command line tool to perform simple calculation (e.g. count, sum, min, max, mean, stdev, string coalescing) on input files.
• data-tools - Command line tools for data extraction, data manipulation, and file format conversion.
• json2csv - Command line tool to convert json to csv.
• q - Command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
• subsample - Command line tool for sampling data from a large, newline-separated dataset (typically a CSV-like file).
• tabula - A tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files.
• RSelenium - A great R package webscraping hard to get data with Selenium without using java. Don't be afraid to try it. There is a great tutorial.
• S3 Website - A tool for pushing static websites to S3

Mapping

Implementations

• AmMaps – An SVG-based mapping implementation by the folks that make AmCharts.
• Google Maps – The de facto Javascript mapping library.
• LeafletJS – An alternative, open-source Javascript mapping library.
• Mapbox – A themed, cloud-hosted LeafletJS implementation.

Tools

• Geojson.io – A GUI to alter your GeoJSOn files or view it in a tabular form.
• Google Maps geojson Editor - A tool to prune and move GeoJSON points on a map.
• Map Shaper – A tool to optimize your GeoJSON files to increase pageload times.
• Map Starter – A GUI to intuitively manipulate and export a GeoJSON/TopoJSON file.

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Applications

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Resources

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• Code For America - Resources offered to Brigades.
• AWS in plain english - Explains AWS capabilities in simple terms.
• Code For America - Resources offered to Brigades.
• Countries in CSV - Simple list of country shapes and data in JSON/CSV format.
• Sporkability - Best practices for making projects easy to fork.
• San Diego Open Data Implementation Guide - Maksim Pecherskiy guidebook and open data assessment and playbook
• Open Procure - Open Source list of Public Agencies Procurement Thresholds

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Who to follow

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More awesome

Discover other awesome, awesome lists.

• awesome by @sindresorhus
• awesome-awesomeness by @bayandin

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License

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