DXO

Category: Open Data

  • New Homepage with Top Nav and Footer

    New Homepage with Top Nav and Footer

    Today we upgraded the core Civic app with a metrics and links for quick dives into our data for Total Devices, Servicers, and Permits. This, along with the Activity feature, with a chronological view of new items added, lets servicers get answers and leads quickly.

  • 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…

  • Panel: Hidden Signals Challenge

    Recently I took part in scoring entries for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hidden Signals Challenge, a competition that “calls upon data innovators from a wide variety of fields—from data science, to civic tech, to epidemiology—to develop concepts for novel uses of existing data that will identify signals and achieve timelier alerts for biothreats…

  • Remarks at the White House Open Data Innovation Summit

    Today I gave keynote remarks, “Open Data: Roots, Impact, and Promise” at The White House Open Data Innovation Summit. Here’s the morning agenda: Here’s the slides: Open Data: Roots, Impact, and Promise from Daniel X. O’Neil Read the complete text here. Here’s some images: Here’s video: Here’s some coverage: White House Open Data Innovation Summit: Open…

  • Presentation: Open Data & Mass Joy at Personal Democracy Forum

    Today I presented to the 2015 Personal Democracy Forum on the topic of Open Data & Mass Joy. Here’s the complete text and slides: Open Data and Mass Joy from Smart Chicago Collaborative And here’s video:

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Radio: Open Data Movement and the Coming Relaunch of EveryBlock

    Today I was interviewed on WBEZ’s Morning Shift about the coming relaunch of EveryBlock. Here’s an embed: And an audio file:

  • Open 311 ServiceTracker for the City of Chicago

    Open 311 ServiceTracker for the City of Chicago

    Open 311 ServiceTracker Chicago is a website and API that I conceived and led in my position at Smart Chicago Collaborative. This was the first project of its kind and lead to the adoption of the service by the City of Chicago at https://311.chicago.gov/ News coverage: Online system to track 311 callsBy Fran Spielman, City…

  • Launch of Cook County Data Web Site

    Today I took part in the launch of the new data Web site for Cook County. Here’s a snip: On Wednesday, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, joined by Cook County Board Commissioner John Fritchey and Cook County Chief Information Officer Greg Wass unveiled the County’s new “Open Data” website today.  The website is an…