05 July 2017
This is the first of a series of three blog posts about how smart city tech and open data can help U.S. mayors uphold Paris Climate Accord.
02 June 2017
Civic Analytics Network (CAN), a consortium of Chief Data Officers (CDOs) and analytics principals in large US cities, recently published an open letter to the open data community. The purpose of the letter is to open a dialogue between open data vendors, open data producers, and open data consumers.
13 November 2016
At Opendatasoft, we decided to go ahead and, in the spirit of what we do best, build a map using open data of the United States Presidential and Congressional Election results.
09 August 2016
As we saw in our recap of the 2nd White House Open Data Round Table, data quality is crucial to Open Data. But looking further than just this one massive subject, it is also crucial to the growth of Public-Private collaboration through data interoperability.
17 May 2016
I was invited to attend the Round Table on Data Quality in Open Data held at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 27th, 2016. The round table was the second in a series of four meetings around the open data initiative sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Center for Open Data Enterprise. This round table was intended to bring together experts to advise the White House Office of Science and Technology on how best to address data quality.
21 December 2015
Leveraging open data and civic tech resources to foster agile solutions adapted to your unique needs can be a highly effective and affordable way to better anticipate, respond to, and recover from disasters.
17 November 2014
We attended the ODI Summit a couple of weeks ago, and during a training session, a very interesting dataset was showcased: crime reports in the city of Chicago from 2001 to present.
