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The Public Library + Me
I was born in the Northview Heights Housing Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is where Andrew Carnegie made most of his money and he built nine out of the 2,500 libraries that bore his name. At one point, the “Carnegie library system” was responsible for 75-80 percent of every library in the nation. In Pittsburgh,…
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On Parsing Restaurant Inspection Violations (Subtitled: Goddess and the Grocer on Elston Had a Bad Day Last Week)
This morning I was reviewing a saved view on the City of Chicago data portal for restaurant inspections conducted by the Chicago Department of Public Health based on a suspected food poisoning. I used a feature of Socrata, the software used in the portal, that The Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) is an effort by Yelp, Code for…
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Here’s Some Info on Crime in Belleville, IL Yesterday
You’re welcome. Follow the Belleville Police Department at facebook.com/BELLEVILLEPD and Twitter @PDBelleville. On these sites you will find the latest news, updates, alerts and advisories. Date: 08/07/13 Time Period: 0600 – 1800 (Day Shift) DISTRICT 6 13-06331 (0703 Hrs) GRAFITTI – 1400 block of Rose Del and 1100 block of Dawn Dr. While on patrol…
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How I Got My Personal Health Records
10/15/2011 Signed up for Microsoft Health Vault, which is “a trusted place for people to organize, store, and share health information online”. Once I signed up, they offered a huge list of other services that have information that I could place inside my Health Vault account. I clicked on every single one of these services…
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Testing EveryBlock Uptown Widget
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