This post is about designing a taxonomy for Chicagoland’s data ecosystem, and why a taxonomy would be useful for the growth and development of the ecosystem. Taxonomies are used in many disciplines to organize knowledge. Carl Linneaus’s taxonomy to classify…
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Follow-up from On The Table 2015: Data Integrity for Small Businesses and Small Non-Profits
For On The Table 2015 I met with Heidi Massey and Ben Merriman over coffee and tea in the Loop. My idea for the conversation focused on creating an open consent form template — meaning, a web form users could…
Data is Small: On The Table Conversation on Data and Society
Editor’s note: Andrew Seeder is a consultant to Smart Chicago who has worked on Chicago School of Data and other important initiatives. Join his On the Table session about the techniques and resources available for people who want to use data to make…
Toward a Structure for Classifying a Data Ecosystem
Note: this is the first Smart Chicago blog post by Andrew Seeder. Andrew has worked for the Chicago Community Trust on data projects for CEO and President Terry Mazany, and has been doing lots of thinking and writing from the…
