Today at Smart Chicago we launched the Chicago School of Data Project. Here’s a snip:
Smart Chicago Collaborative is leading an effort to document and map the landscape of data activity in Chicago— the entities, tasks, companies, enterprises, civil service organizations, and others who make up the field.
It seems to us that there is a Chicago School of Data emerging—one that places data at the service of the people—but this emergence has been under-described and unshaped.
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