Category: Launch
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Published: Preface to “They Killed A Minister”
Lajuana Lampkins Gallery Show, October 9, 2021
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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…
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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.
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Launch: Arte Agora Book
Today I launched the website for my new book: Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…