DXO

Month: September 2012

  • Presentation: KCIC Boot Camp

    Today I spoke at the Knight Community Information Challenge Boot Camp, talking about how to use data in journalism. Here’s the slides I used for discussion. Working With Data and Humans from Daniel X. O’Neil

  • PANEL: Mayor Emanuel’s Digital Trio

    Today I moderated a panel with two members of the Mayor’s administration. Here’s the description: Upon taking office in May 2011, Mayor Emanuel created two new positions in his office: Brett Goldstein as Chief Data Officer and Kevin Hauswirth as Director of Social Media. These two work to ensure that data-driven decision making, technology advancements…

  • Chicago Code for America Open311 Project

    Today was a big day at the Smart Chicago Collaborative– we took part in the launch of the Open311 project with Code for America and the Mayor’s Office. Here’s a snip from our blog post on the subject: Here’s a snip from the Sun-Times article on the launch: The service-tracker technology was developed by Chief…

  • Open 311 ServiceTracker for the City of Chicago

    Open 311 ServiceTracker for the City of Chicago

    Open 311 ServiceTracker Chicago is a website and API that I conceived and led in my position at Smart Chicago Collaborative. This was the first project of its kind and lead to the adoption of the service by the City of Chicago at https://311.chicago.gov/ News coverage: Online system to track 311 callsBy Fran Spielman, City…