Cash-strapped cities are turning to an unusual source to improve their online services on the cheap: helpful hackers, who use city data to create tools tracking everything from real-time subway delays to where to get a free flu shot near your home and information about a contentious school-closing plan. Recently, hackers have begun working with cities to find ways of building applications, or apps, that make use of data -- which gets stripped of personally identifiable information -- that municipalities are collecting anyway in the regular course of governance.
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