Author: Daniel X. O’Neil
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Presentation: “Hack The Election” Session at ORD Camp
Today Dan Sinker and I did a “Hack The Election” session at ORD Camp. I talked about my experience with Aldermanic Websites and he covered Chicago Mayoral Election Scorecard. Here’s my pic:
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Remarks: MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards
Tonight I gave some remarks on behalf of my colleague, Harper Reed, who received the Data Innovation Award at the MCIC 20th Anniversary and Data Innovation Awards for his work on the Chicago Transit API. Basically I just said that we have to fuck shit up right about now.
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Launch: EveryBlock Widget
Today I led the launch of a new feature on EveryBlock. Here’s a blog post I wrote on the subject: Introducing the EveryBlock Widget. Here’s a snip: One of the best things we liked about developing this feature is the conversations we’ve had with bloggers, newspapers, and other news outlets to ask them what they’d like to…
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Photography: DuPage County Fair 2010
Here’s a photo essay I published today:
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“Outstanding Effort” Certificate for Teaching CCD
Out here.
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Launch: SeeClickFix on EveryBlock
Today I helped launch a new data type on EveryBlock: Reported issues. Here’s a snip from the announcement: Our friends at SeeClickFix run a site where you can report non-emergency community issues, like potholes, graffiti or street light outages. They’ve shared their data with us so that EveryBlock users will get notified whenever an issue…
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Presentation: Freeing the Data at CityCamp
Today I did a presentation with Harper Reed at CityCamp called “Freeing the Data – Practical tips and case studies on freeing civic data and doing stuff with it in Chicago”. Very fun. I also served as a local organizer for the event and secured a welcome letter from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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Writing: EveryBlock Statement in Support of Open Data Standards in New York City
Today, on behalf of EveryBlock, I wrote and submitted the following statement to New York City Council: EveryBlock strongly supports the introduction of a Local Law to create open data standards in New York City. EveryBlock is a neighborhood news site serving 15 cities, including New York. You can see our work at http://nyc.everyblock.com/, where we combine public records from New York…
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Founding of OpenGovChicago(-land)
Tonight was the first meeting of OpenGovChicago(-land), a new meetup I co-founded with Joe Germuska.
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Launch: Demolition Hold List
Today I put a new thing on the Internet: Demolition Hold List, Chicago, IL: A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone). Please take a look at all of the great buildings and, if you can, contribute photos, text, and memories of the buildings listed there. I…