Awesome Civic Software

A list of resources for awesome civic software tools, libraries, and applications.

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

Table of Contents

• Awesome Civic
  • Data
  • Tools
  • Applications
  • Resources
  • Design
  • Who to follow
  • Icons
• More awesome
• Contribution Guidelines

Data

• Awesome Public Datasets

Tools

Awesome tools to help get your civic duty on

• DataTables - A jQuery Javascript plugin to help enhance table display.
• jq - A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
• Miller - Command line tool that 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.

Applications

• DemocracyOS - An open-source platform for public policy feedback and voting.
• Next.OpenSpending.Org - Powerful web application that allows you to convert municipal budgets into Frictionless Data's Fiscal Data Package and quickly generate bespoke, d3-based visualizations with a single-click.

Resources

• AWS in plain english - Explains AWS capabilities in simple terms.
• Code For America - Resources offered to Code for America 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's open data assessment and playbook.
• Open Procure - Open source list of Public Agencies Procurement Thresholds.

Design

• Invision - Create interactive mockups/prototypes in the browser. One project is free.
• Balsamiq - Really easy to use mockup website/desktop app. Email Balsamiq for a free "do-gooder" license.
• POP App - Draw your mockup on paper, then take photos with this app to make interactive. First two projects are free.

Who to follow

Civic hackers doing interesting things on GitHub.

Icons

• Maki - Icons for maps. CC0 public domain license. SVG and common PNG sizes.
• The Noun Project - Find basically any icon. Some icons are public domain, others are free but require attribution (or a $1.99 fee). SVG and PNG.

More awesome

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

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