City of Cambridge, MA Open Data Program
Jul 21, 2026 Vibe Coding Cambridge Open Data (Zoom)
Workshop materials, recording, and AI-assisted projects built with Cambridge open data.
Workshop Materials
- Class details Overview of the 90-minute Zoom workshop and its learning goals.
- Class Slides (PDF) Slide deck used during the July 2026 workshop.
- Class Recording Video recording of Vibe Coding Cambridge Open Data.
- Cambridge 311 Pulse Live Cambridge 311 dashboard created with Codex using GPT Sol.
- Cambridge 311 Dashboard Raw Transcript Verbatim visible conversation between the workshop presenter and Codex while building the dashboard. Download the original Word document.
- Cambridge Data Drop Live open data sorting game created with Claude Code using Fable.
Claude Code Prompt for Cambridge Data Drop
The game was produced from this prompt during the workshop:
I want to create a tetris-inspired Cambridge Open Data game for our Vibe Coding Cambridge Open Data workshop for the public. My idea is an web game that grabs 4 popular datasets from the Cambridge open data site semi-randomly, making sure they are sufficiently distinct (4 different "categories" might be sufficient) then draws each of these as a bucket at the bottom of the screen. Each bucket has a title, a distinct color, and perhaps an appropriate icon. When the game starts, a random "row" of data starts descending from the top of the screen (just a selection of 3-4 field values), perhaps represented as a square to keep it from getting too horizontal. The user then has to steer it to the right bucket. More and more rows keep coming. If the data fragment goes to the right bucket, the user gets points, wrong bucket, loses a life. There is jaunty retro arcade style music and three levels. The speed of the data fragments increases as the game goes on and the better the player does. Try to make it load quickly, like maybe just grab 50 or 100 rows of the most recent data from each dataset.