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WRITING: Testimony re: City asset lease agreements disclosure ordinance
Today I testified at the Chicago City Council Committee on Finance. Here’s the text: Statement of Daniel X. O’Neil in support of the proposed City asset lease agreements disclosure ordinance. Monday, June 1, 2009. 11:30 a.m., Council Chambers My name is Dan O’Neil, and I am one of the co-founders of EveryBlock.com, a neighborhood news…
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IBM Smarter Cities Chicago Leadership Forum
Today I took part in an IBM Smarter Cities event. There were some great speakers, including economist Diane Swonk.She spoke for an hour w/o notes about the macro and micro-economy, especially in the Chicago area. She is an amazing person. Here is her 9/11 story: http://www.nabe.com/am2001/swonkstory.htm. Her talk focused on big data sets, but each…
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Presentation: MacArthur Foundation:”Some CTA Hacks”
Here’s my part of a presentation I made with Harper Reed and Jon Trowbridge at the MacArthur Foundation today. Some CTA Hacks View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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Writing Samples re: Open Government
Here are some examples of recent writing on open government:Inaccessible Pothole Data in Chicago: documenting my unsuccesful attempts to obtain pothole data from Chicago’s Department of Transportation And the Chicago Sun-Times references specific, detailed pothole numbers: “The city had a daily average of 300 to 400 potholes in the days before Christmas, but the number…
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LEGISLATION: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: City Council keeping info in TIF funds in black hole
Here’s an editorial in today’s Sun-Times.www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1488786,CST-EDT-edit22b….March 22, 2009It was a modest proposal. Two aldermen, Manny Flores and Scott Waguespack, suggested shedding some light on the city’s TIF district deals by putting information on the Internet.TIF stands for tax increment financing, but as we have explained before, this is what they really are: Mayor Daley’s private…
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LEGISLATION: Statement before the Joint Committee on Finance and Committee Economic, Capital and Technology Development of the Chicago City Council
Here’s my testimony at City Hall today in favor of the “Sunshine TIF Ordinance” proposed by Alderman Scott Waguespack and Alderman Manny Flores: Statement re: Chicago Sunshine TIF Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil Here’s the ordinance itself: Tif Sunshine Final Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil
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Radio Interview: WBEZ 848:”ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web”
Here’s the audio from the interview I did this morning on WBEZ, the public radio station here in Chicago: ChicagoWorksForYou.com Never Hits the Web
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An Annotated Look at the San Francisco Port-a-Potty Arsons
Here’s a pretty good example of deep-ferreting data to figure things out.
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“How to Get Data” Session at CityCamp
Today Harper Reed and I did a session on data hawking at CityCamp. Fun stuff.
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Columbia Journalism Review:”A See-Through Society”
Here’s a great article by Micah Sifry that has a pretty long take on Chicago Works For You:www.cjr.org/feature/a_see-through_society.php?page=all People are eager for access to information, and public officials who try to stand in the way will discover that the Internet responds to information suppression by routing around the problem. Consider the story of a site…