Category: Resume
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Panel: Changing the Relationship Between Government and Residents
Today I made a lightning talk and participated in a panel discussion at the Code for America Summit. Here’s a comprehensive blog post about it over on Smart Chicago. Here’s the presentation slides: Civic User Testing Group as a Model in Changing the Relationship Between Government and Residents (#cfasummit) from Daniel X. O’Neil And a…
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Panel: How To Use Twitter To Improve Public Health
Today I participated in a great panel discussion about Twitter and public health. Here’s the view from the stage: Here’s a description from the Social Media Week website: People Tweet about medical problems 4 days before they see a doctor. Most don’t know they can report food poisoning to the city. Most food poisoning cases…
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Panel: City Data & Social: Data is changing the relationship between cities & their citizens
Today I participated in a panel for Social Media Week with Danielle DuMerer and Scott Robbin. Moderated by Jordan Ho. Here’s teh description: We all know data is important, but how does it affect our lives with respect to our cities and how does it affect the way cities make decisions? The Open Data movement…
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Launch: Foodborne Chicago
Today marks the launch of Foodborne Chicago, a website that connects people who complain about food poisoning on Twitter to the people who can help them out— the Chicago Department of Public Health. We use the City’s Open311 system to directly submit your information to make a request about your food poisoning incident. Here’s info…
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Roundtable on Art and Technology in Public Computer Centers at MCA
Today I hosted a meetup of Connect Chicago will be held as a part of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It will be held at a conference room table in the middle of an art installation called The Nature of the Beast by Goshka Macuga at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The artist…
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Panel: Designing and Operating Cities Using Open Data
Today I participated in a panel for the IEEE International Conference on eScience. Here’s a pic from the stage:
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Art: Rome, July 2012 Playlist (Personal Documentaries)
Here’s a series of personal documentaries I created out of materials I shot during a trip with family to Rome, Italy in late July, 2012. Each of these videos is a custom take on each day of our trip, with video snippets, photos, and music samples, all a part of my “personal documentary” system. Here’s…
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Launch: EveryBlock Philadelphia and EveryBlock Charlotte
Today I helped launch EveryBlock in two more cities— Philadelphia and Charlotte. Here’s the blog post on the EveryBlock blog: Two new EveryBlock cities are live. My role was to find and coordinate the publication of all data in each city. I’m particularly happy with a new data type— Library items. Here’s more: New library items — We’re…
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Y!Q Link Generator: An easy way to generate Y!Q links for your web pages.
Today I launched, with my colleague Ben Friedberg, the Y!Q Link Generator. It leverages Y!Q for Publishers, a way to embed Yahoo! search into you weblog or website. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post: Y!Q for Publishers is a way to embed Yahoo! search into you weblog or website. Since it launched in February, it has not caught on.…
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Sears Intranet
Today we launched the new Sears intranet. My role was to manage the design and tech teams as well as creative direction and naming of the system.