- Open Data definition
- Structured data that is
- machine-readable
- freely shared
- used and built on without restrictions
- Structured data that is
- Specific types of open data
- Budget
- Health
- Science and Research
- Citizen requests, 311
- Crime and police
- Demographic based data
- Location based data
- I love you dad and ali, from addilyn to dad and ali
- Anything else tracked by a system
- Case studies? Save for end?
- Transparency & Accountability
- Necessary for a functioning democracy
- Building Trust
- Government is more effective if works for people
- And if people can work with it
- Engaging the public
- Many Minds principle (Rufus Pollock, Eric Raymond)
- "The best thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else"
- Crowdsourced work
- Many Minds principle (Rufus Pollock, Eric Raymond)
- Sources
- Who: local, state, federal, departments, non-profits
- Types: API vs download
- Formats: csv, xls, json
- Tools
- Tableau public
- https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/
- Brief demo
- Ted Kriewel going to teach us, probably January
- More free tools
- Learn to code!
- Tableau public
- Collaboration
- Github projects
- https://github.com/openwichita
- Quick GitHub intro, issues, editing, uploading
- Project Ideas repo
- Contributing to the website
- EXAMPLE! -> Adding data portal source (add kanview)
- Help wanted tag
- Github projects
- Learning more
Uruguay collaborates with citizens on health sector data
- Uruguay has a department of e-government, AGESIC
- collaborates with local civil groups DATAUY
- to produce open health sector data
- Initially the data was sparse
- A tool was created called "Temporada de pases" (Transfer Season)
- Needed higher quality data
- The issue was brought to the open data discussions
- Led to a new tool, A Tu Servicio
- DATAUY built it as a collaboration, not as a contractor,
- first time this had been done
- Tool allows people to provide information
- Receive recommendations for health insurnace providers
- Compare on different important datapoiints.
- DATAUY built it as a collaboration, not as a contractor,
Budget data in Israel, activism and hacktivism
- Started as a project find out how much spent on firefighting
- Bad data though, sparked larger efforts
- Coders and activists used requests, lobbying, legal action
- Turned this into a public visualization
- Public Knowledge Workshop (Hasadna)
- Budget data originally obtained was incomplete
- Turns out, about 13% of budget is transferred around
- Given only reams of paper on the transfers
- Created a crowdsourcing platform to digitize the information
- PERSIST!
- Also added features to see how these transfers changed the budget
- Last minute, gov finds data and provides it for past years
- Lots of political back and forth over publishing the transfers as open data
- Eventually, Stav Shafir became youngest new MK
- Fought for change within
- Pressed to get transfers published before voting
- Now they are!
- "Budget Key" is newest tool
- Scans MoF website for new tranfser proposals
- Turns them into visualized potential changes
Police data in Wichita
- Project Comport came out of an indianapolis CfA fellowship
- Goal was to publish police accountability data
- Improves transparency and increases public trust
- System was built to allow multiple cities
- Wichita's new Chief of Police made it an intiative to get our data on there
- Brought up during Open Data Committee meetings
- Started after open data collaboration began with City
- Open Data Policy adopted, monthly meetings established
- Data is now public at projectcomport.org
Analyzing genome data to identify source of e coli outbreak
- Had to speed up process of publishing new genome data
- "tweenome", published on NCBI science repo via twitter
- Large community took up effort to analyze