Year: 2014
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News: State’s Top Doc Announces Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Challenge Winner
Today I was part of the announcement of the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza App Challenge. Here’s how they describe it: Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck recently announced the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza App Challenge. The challenge was designed to highlight the availability and benefit of having…
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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…
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2014 Healthy Chicago Award for Public Health Infrastructure
Today Smart Chicago was honored by the Chicago Department of Public Health for Public Health Infrastructure. The full annual report is available here The 2014 Healthy Chicago Awards individual and organization recipients are listed below, along with the Healthy Chicago priority area for which they are recognized.
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Panel: Opening Government: From data to action
Today I participated in the closing session of the 2014 Knight Media Learning Seminar. Here’s complete video of the panel, and a summary. And here’s complete text of my opening remarks: Remarks at Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Opening Government: From data to action Hello. I’m Dan O’Neil, and I run…
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ORD Camp Listener
Today I attended ORD Camp and I listened to people.
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On the Relaunch of EveryBlock
Today marks the relaunch of EveryBlock, six years to the day after its first launch. Here’s what I had to say: “Chicago is a national leader in civic innovation, and the return of EveryBlock is an opportunity for deepening that leadership. We’re especially interested in the development of EveryBlock as an open platform for developers…
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Expunge.io
Today I helped launch a website called Expuge.io. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post at Smart Chicago: The site, which helps start the process of erasing juvenile arrests and/or court records, is pretty much why we exist. For us, it grew naturally out of work we did over our CivicSummer, interacting with youth on…