Category: Data
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MSNBC.com Purchase of EveryBlock
Here’s a snip from some of the news coverage of the sale of EveryBlock that focuses on the public data work that I spearheaded: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock as Interest in Local Content Grows | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD. EveryBlock takes a slightly different approach, scouring a mass of publicly available data in a…
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News Article: Police No Help for Crime Map Project
Here’s an article in the Gotham Gazette mentioning my efforts to get police data from the NYPD.
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An Annotated Look at the San Francisco Port-a-Potty Arsons
Here’s a pretty good example of deep-ferreting data to figure things out.
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“How to Get Data” Session at CityCamp
Today Harper Reed and I did a session on data hawking at CityCamp. Fun stuff.
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PRESS: Lost in the PDFs: Getting City Data in the Gotham Gazette
This month my work was featured in an article about civic data in the Gotham Gazette: EveryBlock.com, which compiles information from agencies of several cities and presents it in a friendly format, has been trying to provide New York City residents with detailed information about crime. To get the statistics for New York, EveryBlock’s “people…