Sean Thornton has a great post this morning on the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School Data-Smart City Solutions Blog: The Chicago School of Data: Building a Framework for Chicago’s Data Ecosystem. Here’s a snip: There’s the Chicago school of architecture,…
Last week, the City of Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology launched a their Tumblr Status Blog to let users of the city data portal know about downtime and technical changes made to the the data portal. The team at…
Here’s an informative update on our Civic Works project. Here’s a snip: The Civic Works Project is a two-year effort to create apps and other tools to help increase the utility of local government data to benefit community organizations and the broader public.…
The WBEZ Public Data Blog is dedicated to examining and promoting civic data in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois. WBEZ is partnering with the Smart Chicago Collaborative to provide news and analysis on open government by producing 200 content items that explain and tell…
Github announced a new feature today— the visualization of geographic data— and pointed to the geojson data we store for our Chicago Health Atlas product as an example. This post has led to 240 forks and counting.
One of the problems that we sometimes encounter in the technology space is that we say things like, “Oh, just use this piece of software that I assume you know about.” It’s the digital equivalent of watching a home improvement…
