White House To Host Open Data Day Hackathon

Do you know your way around an application programming interface? Do open data and data visualization make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? Want to work on the code that allowed the public to petition for the administration to build a Death Star or let Texas secede from the country?

Feb. 22’s White House Open Data Day Hackathon might be for you.

The administration is looking for a few good hackers to help develop the next-generation of API code that drives the We the People petitioning system. [...]