Today, data is an essential tool for government decisionmaking. This session highlights how governments are using data tools and analytics to gain a more complete understanding of problems and the ability to more clearly define goals, measure effectiveness, and adjust as needed.
Brett Goldstein, Code for America Board Member, on aggregating datasets through geospatial and time identifiers to better understand urban ecosystems.
Watch the video online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31N6Vybcjc&list=PL65XgbSILalWFStqV0z0N9pvftstJ8AAh&index=8
Get involved with Code for America: www.codeforamerica.org/action
5. City, county, state, and federal
One API
One query
Central data store
Socrata, CKAN, and CSV
Single spatial index
Single temporal index
Rich context and joins
9. http://plenar.io/examples
Tell me the story of 700 Howard Street.
Give me weekly counts of 311 requests for
every city in the country.
What recent traffic accidents in Manhattan resulted
in a fatality—and what was the weather like?
Let me download all pothole reports from the
census tract containing the Sears Tower.
Show me civilizational collapse during Winter Storm Nemo (Feb 2013).
14. Where the $$$ came from
• National Science
Foundation EAGER grant
• MacArthur Foundation
• UrbanCCD
• University of Chicago
• DataMade
AWS Schema
Who made it