Year: 2009
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Radio Interview: WBEZ 848:”ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web”
Here’s the audio from the interview I did this morning on WBEZ, the public radio station here in Chicago: ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web
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An Annotated Look at the San Francisco Port-a-Potty Arsons
Here’s a pretty good example of deep-ferreting data to figure things out.
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Presentation: Hack The CTA at ORD Camp
Today I did the Hack The CTA presentation at ORDCamp with Harper Reed.
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“How to Get Data” Session at CityCamp
Today Harper Reed and I did a session on data hawking at CityCamp. Fun stuff.
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Columbia Journalism Review:”A See-Through Society”
Here’s a great article by Micah Sifry that has a pretty long take on Chicago Works For You:www.cjr.org/feature/a_see-through_society.php?page=all People are eager for access to information, and public officials who try to stand in the way will discover that the Internet responds to information suppression by routing around the problem. Consider the story of a site…
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King County Restaurant Inspection Fix
My investigations led to fixing an error in the publication of King County restaurant data. I spoke with Hilary Karasz — her tech guy, Mark, fixed the error in the publication of their data.They are once again publishing violation information on their site.It also appears that they have gone back and re-published to records during…
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Vocalo.org Advisory Group
Today I participated in an advisory group.10-20 uploads per day, and 10-20% gets on the air.The best insight I can give is about metadata. Make their content ubiquitous.