Plenario: Changing How We Use Open Data | Data-Smart City Solutions

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-31

Summary:

"The majority of open data portals online today are confined to information from a single city government or political jurisdiction.  For researchers, policymakers, or other data portal users, this can create problems: we know that urban landscapes are complex, interconnected places that do not exist within the bounds of a single government entity.  What if, say, I want to see a map of recent traffic accidents in Manhattan, and understand if weather conditions have an effect?  Or what if I want to see if there’s a connection in Chicago between sanitation complaints and environmental inspections? Finding the answers to such questions is not an easy one; it would require looking at datasets from the City of New York and NOAA, and the City of Chicago and Cook County, respectively.  Each question requires an awkward compare-and-contrast between data from separate government portals.  What’s a researcher to do? The solution is a relatively straightforward one – instead, work with 'One Database, One Map.'  So goes the tagline on Plenario, the University of Chicago-designed, open-access online data hub that makes the way we view, understand, and use open data drastically more convenient ..."

Link:

http://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/plenario-changing-how-we-use-open-data-711

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.u.chicago oa.plenario oa.psi oa.government oa.data

Date tagged:

07/31/2015, 13:59

Date published:

07/31/2015, 09:59