Author: Daniel X. O’Neil
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Aspen FOCAS 2012: Toward Open and Innovative Governance
Over the last few days, I participated in FOCAS 2012: Toward Open and Innovative Governance at the Aspen Institute. It was an enlightening and invigorating experience. Here’s some media that came out of the conference: I took a goodly number of nature shots: And some videos of my contributions: Daniel X. O’Neil Remarks at Aspen Institute…
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Art: Rome, July 2012 Playlist (Personal Documentaries)
Here’s a series of personal documentaries I created out of materials I shot during a trip with family to Rome, Italy in late July, 2012. Each of these videos is a custom take on each day of our trip, with video snippets, photos, and music samples, all a part of my “personal documentary” system. Here’s…
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PANEL: Turning Data into Narrative at “The Story & The Algorithm: 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference”
Today I participated in an interesting panel at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. Here’s my bit: PANEL: Turning Data Into Narrative from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. Here’s relevant snips from the conference live blog: Dan O’Neil is the Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, which funds and fosters civic and municipal innovation. Next…
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HackDay: Condition of Anonymity Project
Today I participated in the Mozilla OpenNews Story and the Algorithm Hack Day. I met some great people and made real progress on a project I’ve had for a long time: Condition of Anonymity. Basically, this is a fun way to explore the reasons the New York Times has given for granting anonymity to a source…
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Launch: Smart Chicago at 1871
Today Smart Chicago was part of the inaugural class of tenants at 1871, Chicago’s digital startup center.
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Panel: Urban Systems Collaborative
Today I worked with John Tolva to lead an interactive session on improving information systems within and between the various actors and sectors that make up a city at the Urban Systems Collaborative meeting at the Metropolitan Planning Council. Here’s the full agenda for the day: 8:50 Welcome – Colin Harrison, IBM 9:00 Plenary…
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Interview: Ugtastic re: OpenGovChicago User-Group
Today marks the publication of an interview I did with Mike Hall of Ugtastic. Here it is: Executive Director of the Smart Chicago Collaborative and organizer OpenGovChicago User-Group
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MC: 2012 Lumity Dinner
Tonight I served as the Master of Ceremonies for the 2012 Lumity Dinner. Great people, great cause.
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PANEL: LISC Chicago Five Big Ideas
Today I took part in a panel for the 18th annual LISC Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards. The panel was called “5 Big Ideas” and the format was 5 ideas expressed in 15 images on 15 slides for 15 seconds each. I used images from my own Flickr account and I was pretty pleased with how…
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News Article: Code experts take a crack at upgrading Chicago’s 311 system
Here’s an article from today’s Chicago Sun-Times about the Code for America project: Code experts take a crack at upgrading Chicago’s 311 system BY SANDRA GUY Business Reporter/sguy@suntimes.com February 2, 2012 7:02PM Chicagoans should be able to more extensively track 311 calls and the city’s responses online, thanks to a team of software coders here…