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.…
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The Next Data Potluck is at the Chicago Community Trust
At the first DataPotluck of the year, consultant and writer Q Ethan McCallum will explain how to put Hadoop to work for you, and how to use Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop solution provided by Amazon Web Services. McCallum…
Excerpt, Beyond Transparency, Building a Smarter Chicago: Civic Activism
For the past few Tuesdays, we’ve excerpting sections from Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation“, an anthology edited by Brett Goldstein with Lauren Dyson and published by Code for America. I wrote a chapter titled, “Building a Smarter Chicago“,…
OpenGovChicago Meetup: Open Data, Chicago, and the Return EveryBlock
Tonight, we will be hosting the OpenGovChicago meetup, Open Data, Chicago, and EveryBlock at the Chicago Community Trust. If you have questions for the speakers, enter them here in this document and come back to this post at 6PM CST for a Google Live…
Excerpt, Beyond Transparency, Building a Smarter Chicago: Enlightened Self-Interest Meets the Movement
For the next few Tuesdays, we are excerpting sections from Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation“, an anthology edited by Brett Goldstein with Lauren Dyson and published by Code for America. I wrote a chapter titled, “Building a…
On our Partnership with Cook County to Expand Open Data
Today the Cook County Board approved a contract that codifies a partnership between the Smart Chicago Collaborative and the County of Cook. Here’s a snip from the County’s announcement of the partnership: “Entering into this partnership with Smart Chicago will…
