3. Hacking for Humanity with Python: The CuiBono political app

Pam Selle , ?

Type:: Poster
Audience level:: Novice
Category:: Mobile

March 11th 8:10 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.

Description

This poster discusses the development of the CuiBono "political ad truth detector" app, from concept, to hackathon, to launch. The poster also talks about Python's prominence at the Philadelphia Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon (Winter 2011)

Abstract

A team of hackers/journalists formed at Random Hacks of Kindness to work on the task of creating a "political ad truth detector," (http://www.rhok.org/solutions/cuibono-truth-detector-political-ads) using a Python web service to serve data to the mobile app.

The CuiBono team is composed of a journalist, professional developers, and sometimes hackers. They formed at RHoK Philly Winter 2011, and have continued development on their app.