chicago open data webinar
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On April 26, 2012,TRANSCRIPT
Webcast Recorded: 4-26-12
City of Chicago Open Data Webinar
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Resources
Open Data Innovations Webinar 04-26-12
For full recording of webinar: http://www.socrata.com/events/view-webinar-chicagos-smarter-city-transformation/
For full transcript:http://www.socrata.com/discover/chicago-open-data-webinar-transcript/
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Our Speakers
Brett Goldstein, Chief Data Officer, City of Chicago Danielle DuMerer, Project Manager, City of Chicago
Open Data Innovations Webinar 04-26-12
Hosted by Saf Rabah, VP of Marketing, Socrata
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Today’s Agenda
Chicago’s Vision for Open Data Chicago’s Implementation of the Vision
New culture of transparency and accountability Creating a sustainable program Enabling Performance Management Open Data for better decision making Tapping into the developer community Collaboration and data convergence with the County, and the State
Results and Impact What’s in Store? Chicago’s Future Direction Live Q&A
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The Vision for Open Data
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“Data belongs to the people, and there is an enormous desire on the part of residents to participate in
government and find ways to contribute.”
Realizing the Vision
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data.CityofChicago.org
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• Worked with various departments and agencies to identify high-value datasets like Crimes, Building Permits, and Food Inspections
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Open Data for Performance Management
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• Greater accountability and transparency with residents enabled by displaying KPIs for City services
• Created performance management tool with minimal time and investment
• Fulfilled early goal of Rahm Emanuel Administration
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Better Decision Making
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• Finding patterns in 311 calls for service…
• Identify the first incident to prevent the next five.
• Found correlation between street light outages and garbage cart theft
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Community Apps
• Around 60 apps submitted to city hackathon
• Civic Developers have created new ways to add meaning to city data
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The End of Data Silos? Data Convergence
One interface. One API. Three different organizations.
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Results and Impact
Site Stats: 328 original datasets 1,450,316 Page Views 471,390 Embeds 1,000+ User-created
views 50+ Apps
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Results and Impact
Impact: FOIA reduction Accountability Cost-effective information delivery Smart decision-making Civic engagement
Civic developer community Residents
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Questions & Follow up
Please send your questions to
Danielle DuMerer [email protected]
Saf Rabah | [email protected]
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Thank You!