Year: 2014
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Chicago: City of Big Data Pecha Kucha Night
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Launch: City of Big Data Exhibition
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Gordon Tech Inspiration Celebration: 2014 Inspiring Minds Award
This evening I was honored at my alma mater. Here’s some details: Gordon Tech College Prep will host the 2nd Annual Inspiration Celebration honoring minds that inspire. The gathering will showcase the school, its talented community and its unique partnership with DePaul University which started in October of 2012. The event usually draws 300 Chicago area business and…
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Video: Blue Sky Digital re: Workplace Culture and the Importance of Tolerance
Here’s a video from today where I talk about the work of Smart Chicago:
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On The Table 2014 Steering Committee
I served on the Steering Committee of On The Table 2014, the community wide conversations about our collective future held on the occasion of the 99th birthday of The Chicago Community Trust. In addition, Smart Chicago hosted a meal at 1871 that brought together technologists, community leaders, and nonprofit executives together in a discussion around how to…
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Presentation: Northeastern Illinois Documents Librarians Group
I freaking love documents and I love librarians, so this was fun. Documents! from Daniel X. O’Neil
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Presentation: Health Data Liberation at the Public Health Informatics Conference, Atlanta
Today I helped do a presentation and run a meetup about the 8 Principles of Open Health Data at the Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta with Dr. Rebecca Wurtz.
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Radio: Using new technology and data collection for the public good (Foodborne Chicago)
Today I did a segment on WBEZ Morning Shift on Foodborne Chicago. https://soundcloud.com/morningshiftwbez/using-new-technology-and-data Social media and Web traffic is more than an easy way to track our daily distractions. Researchers are using that data to find cases of illness. A new study from Boston Children’s Hospital claims that visits to Wikipedia are a faster indicator…
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Foodborne Chicago
Here’s an article about the product: One Year After Launch, Foodborne Chicago Continues to Enhance Food SafetyCity’s online food reporting app turns one Foodborne Chicago identifies public tweets from residents and visitors about food poisoning, then replies privately, providing assistance for the individual to file an online complaint through 311. An alert is then sent automatically…
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Presentation: The Evolution of Open Data at NNIP
Today I participated in a session at the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Meeting in St. Louis that focused on helping local partners consider how their organizations can work with governmental and non-governmental advocates and practitioners of open data. The Evolution of Open Data from Daniel X. O’Neil Y some video: D2 D Open Data Part 1 H.264 from…