Presentation for the Collecting Data session of the Chicago School of Data Days

1. Let the (data)
come to you
Collecting Data
Chicago School of Data
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@danxoneil @smartchicago

2. Points
@danxoneil @smartchicago
• Let’s hear from you
• This is our day
• Smart Chicago
• Let the game come to you
• The World Wide Web is a series of files
• Some unlikely places
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3. Our Principles
Technology
Open
Everyone
Chicago
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4. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Philosophy: technology; open
• We are about technology
– Everything we do relates to technology. We are of and
about the Internet
– We believe in the transformative power of the Internet to
change lives and build the economy for all
• We are open
– We are a small organization looking to make the biggest
impact possible. We can’t do that by being tight or closed
– We work in the open, using & publishing open source
technology
– We have methods for others allowed “in”, whether as
contributors, observers, users, whatever
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5. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Philosophy: everyone; Chicago
• We seek to be of use to everyone
– We believe in the power of the network
– The network needs everyone in it to be
powerful
– We work on solutions that cover the entire city
• We focus on Chicago
– Our middle name
– We do seek to scale our solutions, but not
without serving Chicago
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6. “Let the game come to you”
-- Earl “the Pearl” Monroe
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7. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Data is everywhere
• Listen best you can
• Use existing dumb tools
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8. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Data is everywhere
• Listen best you can
• Use existing dumb tools
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9. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Right there
• With some fun language
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10. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Citypayments
• Database for one purpose
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11. @danxoneil @smartchicago
Citypayments
• Used for another
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12. @danxoneil @smartchicago
What data do you want to collect?
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13. @danxoneil @smartchicago
What collection method you got?
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14. Moar
@danxoneil @smartchicago
• There’s always more
• @danxoneil
• (773) 960-6045
• doneil@cct.org
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