Open Data

ITBLG

January 16, 2015

Performance & Analytics Department

Today, Our Data Is...

  • Closed
  • Misunderstood
  • Hard to find
  • Unknown
  • Scattered

Open Data is...

  • Accessible
  • Described
  • Reusable
  • Timely
  • Complete

As a San Diegan,

Open Data Lets Me...

  • Engage with my government.
  • Find the information I need.
  • Learn where I can open my business.
  • Avoid construction in my commute.
  • Find things going on this week.
  • Learn about where I live.
  • Build applications to help my neighbors.
  • Find support services when I'm in need.

Hmm, OK.  As a director,

Why do I care?

  • Improved decision making
  • Decrease in PRA requests
  • Streamline PRA response process
  • Get data from other departments quicker
  • Shine a spotlight.
  • Standardization
  • Increase your employees innovation

An Example

Let's Visualize Budget Data

As an interactive chart

Today...

  • Download PDF
  • Download Tabula
  • Download Java
  • Extract Page #5
  • Run Tabula
  • Select and Extract Table Data
  • Import into Excel
  • Fix headers
  • Paste into viz tool
  • Visualize

Total Time: 1 Hour

Tomorrow

  • Copy
  • Paste

Total Time: 2 Minutes

The Goal

  • Automatic

Total Time: 0.003 Seconds (probably less)

Less Effort.

Same Result.

Multiplied

Open Data Policy

  • Proposed Open Data Policy:

    • Draws on other existing policies.

    • Defines terms, making sure data meets "open criteria"

    • Assigns responsibilities to Chief Data Officer and to City Departments

    • Sets timeline 

    • Includes reporting requirements to Mayor and Council

Past | Present | Future

Open Data's Timeline is Open Data

OK. Open Data is Awesome.

What can I do?!?!?

 

  • Information Coordinators
  • Begin thinking of our data as a valuable asset.
  • Open-Data Friendly Technology Decisions.
    • Can data be easily extracted out of this tool?
    • Does this tool expose its data in a re-usable and open format?
    • Who owns the data in this tool? Us or the vendor?
    • Call Maksim!

This Presentation

Is Open!

http://bit.ly/sdoditblg

See it in the privacy of your office

Or send it to a friend

And We're Just Starting Out

Keep In Touch!

http://github.com/cityofsandiego

maksimp@sandiego.gov

 

Let's Do

Something

AWESOME

Together!

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