Open Data
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Tracking Eater Chicago’s “24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings”
I saw this post on Eater today: 24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings. As is usual with Eater, it was an amazingly well-researched post, with tons of detail and specifics about who’s doing what where. The actual dates of restaurant openings are a notoriously inexact science. There are lots of movable parts to opening a new…
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Stitching Together Disparate Building Info To Tell Compelling Stories
If written about creating a generic context engine for civic data, and also delved into the fact that private data is critical to understanding the world around us. in prep for the Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday, I wanted to lay out some specific manifestations of a general method developers could use to tell…
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What are the City of Chicago Stimulus Bill Projects?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the Stimulus Bill, has the City of Chicago They get their data from this report from the US Conference of Mayors. There’s also no projects in New York City, which doesn’t make a lick of sense, although Los Angeles has a slew.
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President Obama’s Open Government Imperatives Must Trickle Down to Cities
Today President Obama issued two eloquent orders with the following subject lines: “Freedom of Information Act” and “Transparency and Open Government”. Published on the first full day of his presidency, they constitute a sweeping manifesto about how he wants to govern at the Federal level. Those leading municipal government in this country — mayors, commissioners,…
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Great Interview with NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
Good detail on how NYC is reclaiming streets for humans. The 11-minute film, a long one by Streetfilms’ standard, is “required viewing” for Livable Streets advocates everywhere. Sadik-Khan sounds more like Josef Bray-Ali than Rita Robinson as she explains that streets are for people, and that design and enforecement dictate how people view and use…