Category: Data
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Panel: Big Data Driving Big Change for the Denver Chamber of Commerce
Today I participated in a discussion about the use of big data in helping economic development in regional planning. The focus is on the value of humans in designing and validating systems.
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Presentation: The Data-Driven City: Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy at UIC
Today I did a presentation to the Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy. Great set of scholars from across the country who are focused on the right questions to keep cities thriving.
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Panel: The Future of Story Telling in a Data-driven World
Today I participated in a panel in the Tech Breakfast Club: The Future of Story Telling in a Data-driven World. Here’s a description: Experts from Narrative Science, the Smart Chicago Collaborative and Nuveen Investments will share examples of how marketers are marrying data and natural language technologies to automate routine reports and craft stories that haven’t…
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Radio: Tech Shift: What does Chicago’s Homan Square say about Chicago’s open data?
Today I talked on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift about the need for people-focused, not data-focused civic tech. Here’s a description: If you go to the city’s data portal, you’ll find a database of more than 5 million crimes reported in the city since 2001. It’s one of the largest sets of its kind in the country,…
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Presentation: The Evolution of Open Data at NNIP
Today I participated in a session at the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Meeting in St. Louis that focused on helping local partners consider how their organizations can work with governmental and non-governmental advocates and practitioners of open data. The Evolution of Open Data from Daniel X. O’Neil Y some video: D2 D Open Data Part 1 H.264 from…
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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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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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Presentation to CFA 2014 Fellows: Overcoming Objections
Top three best practices in overcoming objections 1. Cheerful, positive, water-like. 2. Stay above. Speak in terms of policy. Make everything repeatable. 3. There are nothing but details. Nothing else matters. Dan O’Neil (773) 960-6045 danielx@gmail.com
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News Story: Food-poisoning tweets get just desserts
Here’s some coverage of the Foodborne Chicago project today. The main story was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune: Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up: Health authorities seek out sickened Chicagoans, ask them to report restaurants. It was a very complete story, with detailed custom graphics on the process we follow to manage incoming tweets: The…