Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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On the Use of Private Data to Improve Lives (Five Data Sources You Can Use Now to Make a New Business)
I have long been been a proponent of open government data, and I’ve made a lot of products that use it. I’ve helped a number of cities, including my own, in publishing data and coming up with good policies. Over the last couple years, however, I’ve turned my attention to the vast troves of private data that…
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Hidden Personal Data and the Passionate Stories Within
Lately I’ve been collecting and publishing data about myself from disparate places. For instance, the CTA allows you to download the last 90 days of your travel history– here’s a block of mine. I’m working on collecting the last 5 years of every item each of my children has purchased for lunch at school. By…
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Next Door: Living Social and Hooters, Chinatown DC
The density of cities is a wonderful thing.
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Let’s Re-Relect the President.
The President of the United States is in a very close race against the Republican challenger and the cynical Republican money machine. If you were eating solid foods in 2004, you remember the searing tears and physical pain of the day after Tuesday, November 2 of that year. We have to win this thing. Don’t…
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Popcorn Plant for Sale
Over the weekend, Shawn-Laree and I went to the Barker Family Reunion at her cousin’s house near Middlebury, Indiana. We had a great time. After dinner, the day-long rain had cleared and we took a walk in Middlebury, and we came across the Wanberg Popcorn Company. I loved this place. It was completely custom: a…