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Category: Launch

  • Published: Preface to “They Killed A Minister”

    https://www.derivativeworks.com/2021/10/lajuana-lampkins-gallery-show-october-9-2021.html

  • Launch of Japanese Outsider Woodcuts

    Today I helped launch Japanese Outsider Woodcuts (JOW), a new gallery created by Mark Boelhouwer, a longtime collector of woodblock prints created by untrained western artists mimicking and building upon the traditional Ukiyo-e style of Japanese woodcut artists. Here’s more: The gallery focuses on the work of Paul Jacoulet, a French national who lived in…

  • Founding of Civic Elevator

    Founding of Civic Elevator

    Today I helped create Civic Elevator, an enterprise software company focused on the vertical transportation business. I was also appointed CEO of the new company.

  • Launch: Arte Agora Book

    Today I launched the website for my new book: Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way.

  • Communications: Blue Button Launch at HIMSS Conference

    Today the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0,  a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to secure applications, services and research programs that they trust”. Ad Hoc is working to develop this product as a subcontractor. I was responsible for the business development, capture, proposal development, and…

  • Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    I conceived and launched Cohorts, a service of Ad Hoc that allows us to conduct incisive research with groups of relevant people to make government digital services work better for all. Here’s some snips from the launch blog post: There are two components to Cohorts — finding the right people and conducting the right research. On…

  • Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Report: Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

    Today marks the publication of the  Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve“. I served on the Early Intervention & Personnel Concerns working group, and helped develop this recommendation: publish, on a monthly basis, aggregate data on the following: new and pending complaints by unit,…

  • Launch: OpenGrid at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory

    Today I helped launch OpenGrid— a free, browser-based, open source mapping platform displaying Chicago’s robust collection of open datasets. Here’s a set of photos I took: My role was to take part in the conceptual model of OpenGrid, working with City technology officials to plan the work, and help manage the work of the Smart Chicago…

  • Presentation: The Inefficacy of Dots on Maps at Chi Hack Night

    Tonight I gave a few remarks at Chi Hack Night #188: Introducing Open Grid. Take a look at the original source video or see the snip below. Here’s how Chris Hagan of WBEZ covered these remarks in his article, “Chicago launches OpenGrid, latest step in making open data more accessible“: Dan O’Neil, executive director of the…

  • Launch: Chicago School of Data Project

    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…