Year: 2008
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Presentation: Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget: “The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government”
Here’s a presentation I made today to the Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget about open government. Intergovernmental Advisory Board Webinar: The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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Hand-Drawn Parks in Boston
Over the last week, I drew all of the parks in Boston EveryBlock on using Q-GIS.
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PRESS: Lost in the PDFs: Getting City Data in the Gotham Gazette
This month my work was featured in an article about civic data in the Gotham Gazette: EveryBlock.com, which compiles information from agencies of several cities and presents it in a friendly format, has been trying to provide New York City residents with detailed information about crime. To get the statistics for New York, EveryBlock’s “people…
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Independent Government Observers Task Force
I helped organize and participated in the Independent Government Observers Task Force Municipal Governments (Working Group Chair: Daniel X. O’Neil). This group will focus on issues involved in citizens attempting to build interfaces around municipal government data. Technical issues such as harvesting techniques and presentation techniques will be covered, as will social issues such as…
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Partnership: EveryBlock in Your Car with Dash
I managed the launch a new partnership for EveryBlock with Dash Navigation. Here’s a snip of the blog post I published on the EveryBlock blog: You can now view EveryBlock data in your car, thanks to Dash Navigation. We’ve launched a partnership with Dash, which provides Internet-enabled GPS navigation systems for vehicles. The cool thing…
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Launch: EveryBlock Philadelphia and EveryBlock Charlotte
Today I helped launch EveryBlock in two more cities— Philadelphia and Charlotte. Here’s the blog post on the EveryBlock blog: Two new EveryBlock cities are live. My role was to find and coordinate the publication of all data in each city. I’m particularly happy with a new data type— Library items. Here’s more: New library items — We’re…
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LAUNCH: New York Attorney General Expired Pharmacy Products Investigation Locations
Today at EveryBlock we launched a new project: New York Attorney General Expired Pharmacy Products Investigation Locations. It’s one thing to read a story about an investigation of expired products in pharmacies across your state, but it’s another thing altogether to see that your drugstore has been selling expired products.
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Radio interview: BBC: Mapping Crime: Lessons from Chicago”
Here’s a pretty lengthy BBC interview of Adrian & me about crime data in the United States.
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LAUNCH: “Operation Crooked Code”
Today I helped launch the first EveryBlock Special Report, Operation Crooked Code. Here’s some notes on the work, from the announcement blog post: The first EveryBlock special report is a great one: Operation Crooked Code. A week or so ago, 15 people were arrested on bribery charges as part of a federal probe into corruption…
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Video: Ragan TV: It’s a block party!
Here’s a video published today where I talk about how block-level news affects the public relations industry.