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Open Data. Mick Thompson 2012 Code For America Fellow Friday,
September 7, 12
Friday, September 7, 12
1 year fellowship Friday, September 7, 12
3 cities 20 fellows Friday, September 7, 12
8 cities 26 fellows Friday, September 7, 12
What is Open Data? Friday, September 7, 12
Data GIS Budget Transit Service Requests Crime / Police Reports
Friday, September 7, 12
Data Open, published in a freely available location. In formats
that are machine readable. No PDFs, please :) In formats that are standard. Useful metadata. Friday, September 7, 12
Data GIS (shapefiles, kml, geojson) Budget (xls, csv) Transit (GTFS)
Service Requests (Open311) Crime / Police Reports (xls, csv) Friday, September 7, 12
Why Open Data? Friday, September 7, 12
Why Open Data? What are the results... Friday, September 7,
12
<crimemapper> Friday, September 7, 12
xls file provided by Friday, September 7, 12
Engaged Citizens Friday, September 7, 12
<Transit Apps / Friday, September 7, 12
GTFS & Realtime APIs Friday, September 7, 12
Economic Development Friday, September 7, 12
<look at cook> Friday, September 7, 12
data.cityofchicago.or Friday, September 7, 12
Transparency Friday, September 7, 12
Friday, September 7, 12
Open311 API Friday, September 7, 12
Reuse Friday, September 7, 12
How? Friday, September 7, 12
<data portals> Friday, September 7, 12
Data Catalog Explore Data Visualize API Hosted Parts of a
Data Portal Friday, September 7, 12
CKAN (data.gov.uk) Socrata (data.gov) Open Data Catalog (Philly) Friday, September
7, 12
Steps... Gather data. In good formats For data that updates
often, automate exports Data Catalog to list available data. Friday, September 7, 12
Resources www.codeforamerica.org - Blog. Applications. O’Reilly Gov2.0 Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/gov2
GovFresh.com Federal Open Data Policy http://www.data.gov/data- policy Friday, September 7, 12
Mick Thompson
[email protected]
@dthompson Friday, September 7, 12