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King County Restaurant Inspection Fix
My investigations led to fixing an error in the publication of King County restaurant data. I spoke with Hilary Karasz — her tech guy, Mark, fixed the error in the publication of their data.They are once again publishing violation information on their site.It also appears that they have gone back and re-published to records during…
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Presentation: Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget: “The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government”
Here’s a presentation I made today to the Intergovernmental Teleconference Group of the Office of Management and Budget about open government. Intergovernmental Advisory Board Webinar: The Value of Open Data Sharing for Government View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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Hand-Drawn Parks in Boston
Over the last week, I drew all of the parks in Boston EveryBlock on using Q-GIS.
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PRESS: Lost in the PDFs: Getting City Data in the Gotham Gazette
This month my work was featured in an article about civic data in the Gotham Gazette: EveryBlock.com, which compiles information from agencies of several cities and presents it in a friendly format, has been trying to provide New York City residents with detailed information about crime. To get the statistics for New York, EveryBlock’s “people…
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Independent Government Observers Task Force
I helped organize and participated in the Independent Government Observers Task Force Municipal Governments (Working Group Chair: Daniel X. O’Neil). This group will focus on issues involved in citizens attempting to build interfaces around municipal government data. Technical issues such as harvesting techniques and presentation techniques will be covered, as will social issues such as…
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Radio interview: BBC: Mapping Crime: Lessons from Chicago”
Here’s a pretty lengthy BBC interview of Adrian & me about crime data in the United States.
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LAUNCH: “Operation Crooked Code”
Today I helped launch the first EveryBlock Special Report, Operation Crooked Code. Here’s some notes on the work, from the announcement blog post: The first EveryBlock special report is a great one: Operation Crooked Code. A week or so ago, 15 people were arrested on bribery charges as part of a federal probe into corruption…
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Video: Ragan TV: It’s a block party!
Here’s a video published today where I talk about how block-level news affects the public relations industry.
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Presentation: Ragan Conference:”Use Web 2.0 to Keep Up With– and Join– the conversation”
Here’s the presentation I made at the Ragan Conference in Chicago today: Daniel X. Presentation at Ragan Conference, May 2008 View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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PANEL: Citizen Self-Help: Finding the Infromation You Need
Today I participated in a panel discussion at the National Press Club for Sunshine Week 2008. Citizen Self-Help: Finding the Information You Need We will be visiting and talking with creators of websites that help the public avoid having to file official requests or go to offices and meetings to learn what our government is…