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Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics

Exploring new approaches to civic life.

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3 GSoC years

2023 2022 2021

2023

4 projects

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Exploring Intersection of Civic Technology and Large Language Models

For years, the government has struggled to provide helpful information for residents in need. Sometimes the resources are not readily accessible, or...

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Dashboard for Equity in City Infrastructure

The goal of this project is to build a web-based dashboard that allows City departments to keep track of infrastructure investments and measure their...

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Backend System for Historical Audio Tour Application

We want to build an audio tour application that highlights sites visible from MBTA's (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) public...

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Improving Civic Technology to Achieve Equity Goals

This proposal is to assist the City of Boston in achieving in equity goals, either by helping implement a city chatbot powered by large...

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2022

2 projects

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Improved Translation for the City’s 311 App with Machine Learning

The aim of the project is to build an API-accessible service that improves the translation of text from residents reporting issues through the 311...

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Salihu Dickson Google Summer of Code proposal

The Problems I am applying to solve are: 1. Building a Tool for Collecting Crowdsourced Ideas on Interactive maps, this is supposed to help people...

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2021

3 projects

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Boston.gov Solar Roof Potential

This project uses computer vision, satellite imaging (Google Earth), and Analyze Boston to build a lightweight web service API that provides data on...

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Geospatial Tools for Post-Disaster Housing Analysis

This project will focus on creating an open-source GIS Land Suitability Analysis as part of a larger Regional Catastrophic Grant Program (RCGP) by...

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Urban Tree Canopy Detection Using Satellite and Aerial Imagery

The City of Boston’s Parks Department maintains a comprehensive data set on trees in Boston. However, it’s a manual and laborious process to get the...

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