UPDATE (Feb. 2012) Reader Steve Vance suggests in the comments below that I could use Google Refine to parse the JSON file and convert it to Excel without relying on the tedious Microsoft Word editing process I summarize below. He’s right. Google Refine is amazing. It converted the JSON file to rows/columns in about a second. [...]
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The “Socratic Method” of publishing city data? I was encouraged at the OpenGov Camp this past Sunday by an announcement from NYC DoITT that the city will be using Socrata to provide online access to its data. It’s a great platform. It doesn’t ensure that the city will actually provide good data, or update it in a [...]
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I watched today’s news event by New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg and his colleagues about the city’s new “Digital Road Map” [PDF]. Impressive effort, including the livestream webcast. But I thought the Twitter stream during the Mayor’s webcast was especially interesting. Seemed to me that there were just as many tweets about real-world problems (potholes, [...]
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Last fall I had high hopes that New York City would loosen the shackles that agencies too often held tightly around “their” data sets. The city’s BigApps competition had just been announced, the new Data Mine website was launched with many data sets I never imagined would see the light of day, and the city [...]
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I wasn’t able to attend this week’s “MTA Unconference for Developers,” but it sounds like it was a great event. My colleague Dave Burgoon sat in, and I followed the Twitter stream and read several of the follow up posts. The shift in attitude and action at MTA to open up access to their data [...]
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This week I submitted our recommendations [PDF] for data sets to include in New York City’s “Big Apps” competition. September 1 was the deadline for data ideas, and also for responses to the RFP to run the competition itself. I was a bit surprised by the city’s announcment in June about Big Apps, because I [...]
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