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OpenGov Diagram by Armel Le Coz & Cyril Lage (from Democratie Ouverte).
thanks to Samuel Goëta (Open Knowledge Foundation France) for translation.
"For years, we’ve been able to track the status of our packages, but to this day there is no one website where you can see how your tax dollars are being spent. Once the president signs this bill, that will start to change." - Speaker Boehner
April 30, 2014. (Official Photo by Caleb Smith)
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Opengov techies give back with apps and expertise
The science of community management, a look at open source 2.0
Created by Libby Levi for opensource.com
unpacking open gov data into = open government, open data, gov data; what makes each category; what are valid intersections? what are invalid? how to further delineate categories?
gov data = data vs information; categories of gov data: operational, administrative, technical(statistical/scientific,geospatial)? or data about gov, data by gov, data for gov?
open data = is it more than just a license?
open government = classic open gov? modern open gov? how to unpack is a whole other diagram
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The graph represents a network of 947 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained "#dataviz", taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 1,500 users. The network was obtained on Sunday, 02 June 2013 at 15:16 UTC. There is an edge for each follows relationship. There is an edge for each "replies-to" relationship in a tweet. There is an edge for each "mentions" relationship in a tweet. There is a self-loop edge for each tweet that is not a "replies-to" or "mentions". The tweets were made over the 7-day, 2-hour, 0-minute period from Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 13:00 UTC to Sunday, 02 June 2013 at 15:01 UTC.
The graph is directed.
The graph's vertices were grouped by cluster using the Clauset-Newman-Moore cluster algorithm.
The graph was laid out using the Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale layout algorithm.
The edge colors are based on relationship values. The edge widths are based on edge weight values. The edge opacities are based on edge weight values. The vertex sizes are based on followers values. The vertex opacities are based on followers values.
Overall Graph Metrics:
Vertices: 947
Unique Edges: 8258
Edges With Duplicates: 1254
Total Edges: 9512
Self-Loops: 1005
Reciprocated Vertex Pair Ratio: 0.338230439088808
Reciprocated Edge Ratio: 0.505489083508079
Connected Components: 50
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 46
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 894
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 9438
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 7
Average Geodesic Distance: 3.033881
Graph Density: 0.00904938483828983
Modularity: 0.359929
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.234
Top 10 Vertices, Ranked by Betweenness Centrality:
albertocairo
EdwardTufte
ddjournalism
visualisingdata
VisualizingOrg
tableau
NicolasLoubet
KarenBastienOK
SocialMedia411
noahi
Top URLs in Tweet in Entire Graph:
www.flickr.com/photos/twitteroffice/sets/72157633647745984/
datadrivenjournalism.net/featured_projects/Behind_the_Aus...
blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/05/the-arteries-of-the-...
guides.library.duke.edu/content_mobile.php?pid=355157&...
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/dataviz,%20datavisualization/en
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/data%20visualisation/en
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22657086
www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/publications/1562...
www.facebook.com/AllAnalytics/app_196506863720166
Top URLs in Tweet in G1:
datadrivenjournalism.net/featured_projects/Behind_the_Aus...
gs10.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_GuardianNews01.asp?newms=...;
postgraphics.tumblr.com/post/51818823313/behind-the-scene...
visualizing.org/contests/visualizing-meteorites
www.businessinsider.com/best-maps-from-maps-on-the-web-tu...
datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/a_super_simple_tool_to...
thepoliticsofsystems.net/2013/05/playing-with-the-new-yor...
www.densitydesign.org/2013/05/alberto-cairo-designers-rea...
Top URLs in Tweet in G2:
blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/05/the-arteries-of-the-...
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/dataviz,%20datavisualization/en
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/data%20visualisation/en
www.facebook.com/AllAnalytics/app_196506863720166
www.sas.com/apps/sim/redirect.jsp?detail=TR17756
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22657086
beeha.us/blog/facebook-graph-visualization-bmw-usa/
blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/05/nyt-uses-r-to-invest...
www.inc.com/john-brandon/8-new-tech-companies-to-watch.html
gigaom.com/2013/05/14/were-witnessing-the-rise-of-the-gra...
Top URLs in Tweet in G3:
www.flickr.com/photos/twitteroffice/sets/72157633647745984/
guides.library.duke.edu/content_mobile.php?pid=355157&...
www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/if-game-of-thrones-was-a-subway-map
www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/30/ce-que-re...
review.wizehive.com/voting/view/dja2013/14510/1244458/0
www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/how-does-quartz-create-visualiz...
plus.google.com/103461709570992943324/posts/6L5BijDvDU2
infoamazonia.org/2012/10/terra-peru-aims-for-zero-defores...
api.dmcloud.net/player/pubpage/4e7343f894a6f677b10006b4/5...
Top URLs in Tweet in G4:
www.lifeafterearthscience.com/
deliver.jsi.com/dhome/rdr?p_url=/dlvr_content/resources/a...
worldbank.tumblr.com/day/2013/04/24/
philadelphia.craigslist.org/sof/3838831950.html
forumone.com/events/detail/when-data-everywhere-where-do-...
www.channel4.com/news/syria-files-interactive-rebels-weap...
datadrivenjournalism.net/news_and_analysis/Al_Jazeera_EJC...
inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/share/Bruce_Haupt/759718896405284...
Top URLs in Tweet in G5:
qz.com/89019/29-of-the-worlds-largest-bike-sharing-progra...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/25/sunday-review/corp...
www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/interac...(Q51yQ24dc_y(Q23Q24Q25Q2BmX4Q25mrQ25Q2BrQ25@sQ51Q60cQ22NdQ24Q23(Q24Q26Q25_7dR7dcyQ24Nyc6Q24@UxyjF
www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/interac...(r.-RRR-g.5Q2B-aTzpQ2FTT.1-l(.HQ2FQ7Ez.lQ60H-1IQ25Y-IW-1A-poTQ2F.p-.H((lp-(Q7EaQ7EQ2BpQ27V(HHwg.5Q2B
worldbank.tumblr.com/day/2013/05/14/
www.datapointed.net/visualizations/population/world/seven...
theberad.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/avisualhistorycopy.jpg
Top URLs in Tweet in G6:
www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/publications/1562...
qz.com/89019/29-of-the-worlds-largest-bike-sharing-progra...
www.eventbrite.com/event/6620954453/#
www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/interac...)qUAYUQ7EEUQ3E_LQ3A1_Q3AUapQ601O9apLHL1n9Q7EA))NQ5EQ7CQ23o
fontsinuse.com/uses/3997/2013-tesla-model-s-dashboard-dis...
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2329443/The-incre...
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2013/05/fish-free/
plus.google.com/117821825929676420234/posts/RRCiEZFzFcd
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/Perpetual_O...
Top URLs in Tweet in G7:
hacknight.in/fifthelephant/2013-visualization#/participants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSZJzb-aX8&feature=youtu.be
blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/201...
postgraphics.tumblr.com/post/51818823313/behind-the-scene...
www.computerworld.in/feature/rise-dataviz-expert-105762013
visualizing.org/contests/visualizing-meteorites
www.thefunctionalart.com/2013/05/visualizations-mythmakin...
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/arts/design/pleasurable-design...
Top URLs in Tweet in G8:
www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=1411&doc_i...
www.icharts.net/blogs/2013/spotlight-interview-communicat...
investors.tableausoftware.com/overview/default.aspx
Top URLs in Tweet in G9:
www.theverge.com/2013/6/1/4386496/twitter-turns-geotagged...
complexdiagrams.com/properties
visualizing.org/visualizations/doctor-who-episodes-1963-2013
www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=1411&doc_i...;
www.hackforchangemiami.org/schedule.html
www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw...
Top URLs in Tweet in G10:
source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/learning/design-principl...
visualoop.com/8629/the-world-map-according-to-twitter
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/25/sunday-review/corp...
blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/05/the-arteries-of-the-...
www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/predictiveanalytics/ent...
www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
trackimpact.com/post/51037726182/step-1-to-building-a-sto...
Top Domains in Tweet in Entire Graph:
sas.com
datadrivenjournalism.net
nytimes.com
tumblr.com
co.uk
flickr.com
revolutionanalytics.com
tweetedtimes.com
visualizing.org
vimeo.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G1:
datadrivenjournalism.net
nytimes.com
tumblr.com
visualizing.org
co.uk
dimplejs.org
globalsuccessor.com
sharedby.co
gob.ar
thefunctionalart.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G2:
sas.com
tweetedtimes.com
revolutionanalytics.com
co.uk
linkedin.com
dashboardinsight.com
allanalytics.com
facebook.com
dundas.com
youtube.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G3:
flickr.com
duke.edu
buzzfeed.com
lemonde.fr
google.com
wizehive.com
niemanlab.org
vimeo.com
coronaperspectives.com
aecom.org
Top Domains in Tweet in G4:
tumblr.com
lifeafterearthscience.com
jsi.com
craigslist.org
datadrivenjournalism.net
iea.org
co.uk
aecom.org
forumone.com
channel4.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G5:
visual.ly
nytimes.com
tumblr.com
bolid.es
negawatt.org
qz.com
vimeo.com
flickr.com
datapointed.net
wordpress.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G6:
hereistoday.com
ipsos-mori.com
co.uk
qz.com
eventbrite.com
nytimes.com
fontsinuse.com
informationisbeautifulawards.com
google.com
nasa.gov
Top Domains in Tweet in G7:
hacknight.in
youtube.com
technet.com
tumblr.com
computerworld.in
visualizing.org
thefunctionalart.com
nytimes.com
vimeo.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G8:
allanalytics.com
icharts.net
vimeo.com
tableausoftware.com
treesheets.org
cwrld.us
Top Domains in Tweet in G9:
theverge.com
complexdiagrams.com
hint.fm
wordpress.com
visualizing.org
allanalytics.com
hackforchangemiami.org
ibm.com
Top Domains in Tweet in G10:
mozillaopennews.org
nytimes.com
visualoop.com
revolutionanalytics.com
ibm.com
trackimpact.com
Top Hashtags in Tweet in Entire Graph:
dataviz
ddj
bigdata
infographics
data
visualization
infographic
sas
opendata
analytics
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G1:
dataviz
ddj
infographics
bigdata
govhack
opendata
data
maps
d3js
visualization
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G2:
dataviz
bigdata
sas
visualization
analytics
data
infographic
rstats
datascience
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G3:
dataviz
ddj
socialmedia
bigdata
opendata
football
gameofthrones
outils
tools
design
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G4:
dataviz
infographic
willsmith
anthropocene
opendata
wd2013
ghmatters
ddj
ict4d
opengov
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G5:
dataviz
graphicdesign
infographic
bigdata
opendata
tngov
tunisie
dnte
joydivision
petersaville
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G6:
dataviz
mrx
wtmonitor
localgov
casro
bikesharing
nptech
boston
data
opendata
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G7:
dataviz
visualization
bangalore
d3js
r
art
infographics
rhok
ddj
ux
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G8:
dataviz
auxc13
infographic
ux
pastina
napoleone
campagnadirussia
javascript
lib
day
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G9:
dataviz
bigdata
socialmedia
hackforchange
data
stats
infographics
ddj
Top Hashtags in Tweet in G10:
dataviz
hackforchange
maps
detroit
taxes
rstats
immigration
dataanimation
ibm
Top Words in Tweet in Entire Graph:
dataviz
rt
data
via
de
visualization
ddj
bigdata
amp
infographics
Top Words in Tweet in G1:
dataviz
rt
ddj
data
infographics
via
albertocairo
bigdata
gt
new
Top Words in Tweet in G2:
dataviz
rt
data
visualization
analytics
sas
via
bigdata
amp
infographic
Top Words in Tweet in G3:
dataviz
rt
de
le
des
la
en
et
par
du
Top Words in Tweet in G4:
dataviz
rt
amp
infographic
amazing
philly
website
new
willsmith
film
Top Words in Tweet in G5:
dataviz
rt
via
data
visually
visualization
infographic
map
one
visualized
Top Words in Tweet in G6:
dataviz
rt
mrx
see
interactive
amp
wtmonitor
life
universe
everything
Top Words in Tweet in G7:
dataviz
rt
data
visualization
art
amp
30
nerds
register
hasgeek's
Top Words in Tweet in G8:
dataviz
auxc13
toccaceliblasi
rt
e
data
talk
svela
segreti
della
Top Words in Tweet in G9:
dataviz
noahi
bigdata
rt
data
great
ex
number
via
anitaycheng
Top Words in Tweet in G10:
dataviz
rt
hackforchange
migrahack
interactive
jmm
hey
spec
ers
design
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in Entire Graph:
data,visualization
dataviz,infographics
rt,albertocairo
great,dataviz
dataviz,via
bigdata,dataviz
ddj,dataviz
geotagged,tweets
ddj,bigdata
dataviz,bigdata
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G1:
dataviz,infographics
rt,albertocairo
ddj,dataviz
bigdata,dataviz
nytgraphics,dataviz
data,visualization
simple,deep
deep,clear
clear,beautiful
beautiful,nytgraphics
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G2:
data,visualization
visual,analytics
dataviz,sas
geotagged,tweets
rt,revodavid
sas,visual
dataviz,bigdata
big,data
dataviz,news
great,dataviz
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G3:
data,visualization
la,dataviz
par,département
département,dataviz
de,tweets
du,monde
dataviz,socialmedia
poussif,démarrage
démarrage,des
des,emplois
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G4:
amazing,website
website,new
new,willsmith
willsmith,film
film,afterearth
afterearth,features
features,anthropocene
anthropocene,dataviz
owengaffney,amazing
infographic,contraceptives
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G5:
via,visually
visually,dataviz
data,visualization
social,media
rt,tnchiffres
tnchiffres,tngov
tngov,rt
rt,aminkh
aminkh,tunisie
tunisie,dataviz
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G6:
life,universe
universe,everything
everything,visualised
visualised,one
one,colourful
colourful,interactive
interactive,bar
bar,dataviz
wtmonitor,dataviz
rt,dataeverywhere
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G7:
data,visualization
dataviz,nerds
nerds,register
register,hasgeek's
hasgeek's,data
visualization,hacknight
hacknight,29
29,amp
amp,30
30,jun
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G8:
toccaceliblasi,auxc13
toccaceliblasi,svela
svela,segreti
segreti,della
della,dataviz
dataviz,bel
bel,talk
talk,umanizzare
umanizzare,dati
dati,dando
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G9:
noahi,bigdata
great,dataviz
dataviz,ex
ex,number
rt,anitaycheng
dataviz,noahi
bigdata,noahi
dataviz,bigdata
bigdata,dataviz
noahi,dataviz
Top Word Pairs in Tweet in G10:
interactive,dataviz
rt,jmm
jmm,hey
hey,hackforchange
hackforchange,spec
spec,migrahack
migrahack,ers
ers,design
design,principles
principles,applied
Top Replied-To in Entire Graph:
toccaceliblasi
beehaus
albertocairo
twombh
jenstirrup
kristw
migrahack
macala
parstream
Top Replied-To in G1:
albertocairo
pciuccarelli
makerfairerome
ispeakanalytics
flowingdata
junkcharts
eojnairb
governordeal
edwrdlee
evalu8r
Top Replied-To in G2:
beehaus
kristw
jenstirrup
mhausenblas
macala
tableau
policyviz
parstream
nytimes
Top Replied-To in G3:
anthonymasure
jbmacluckie
jeanabbiateci
ireneros
schesnel
userstudio
ioudg
ulfisch
karinevigu
johanhufnagel
Top Replied-To in G4:
g33kmate
jessicacolaco
Top Replied-To in G5:
twombh
alphatative
c4_spacewizard
Top Replied-To in G6:
wteducation
scheufele
Top Replied-To in G7:
seesharp
Top Replied-To in G8:
toccaceliblasi
Top Replied-To in G10:
migrahack
Top Mentioned in Entire Graph:
albertocairo
noahi
nytgraphics
revodavid
ddjournalism
visualizingorg
miguelrios
toccaceliblasi
allanalytics
densitydesign
Top Mentioned in G1:
albertocairo
nytgraphics
ddjournalism
visualizingorg
densitydesign
flinklabs
pciuccarelli
gabrieldance
fcage
dashingd3js
Top Mentioned in G2:
revodavid
allanalytics
miguelrios
tableau
bi_dashboards
kirkdborne
sasuk_vanalytic
dundasdata
bmwusa
nytgraphics
Top Mentioned in G3:
pomme_
http
askmedia_
samuellaurent
llllitl
matamix
alirebaie
julesbonnard
cyceron
mvaudano
Top Mentioned in G4:
afterearth
deliverproject
worldbank
ejcnet
iea
tumblr
owengaffney
amanda_levinson
vgalaz
syrianews
Top Mentioned in G5:
visually
worldbank
tnchiffres
aminkh
littleark
thierrysalomon
nwassociation
tck_design
ripetungi
rivefuentes
Top Mentioned in G6:
dataeverywhere
imdatafizz
ipsosmori
qz
yan0
deborah909
mapcmetroboston
bostonfdn
ocsi_uk
albertocairo
Top Mentioned in G7:
hasgeek
rasagy
merhl
albertocairo
rhok_bang
postgraphics
visualizingorg
kenneth
hursman
mattsugihara
Top Mentioned in G8:
toccaceliblasi
lallodola
debora_botta
allanalytics
nbrgraphs
densitydesign
mikymartin
tableau
rich1
georgevhulme
Top Mentioned in G9:
noahi
anitaycheng
verge
moebio
dschweidel
albertocairo
kalanicraig
nytgraphics
visualizingorg
ib5k
Top Mentioned in G10:
jmm
migrahack
miguelrios
kat_a_hartman
visualoop
alliedmediaconf
rivefuentes
rijking
revodavid
manyeyes
Top Tweeters in Entire Graph:
GovernmentDroid
memberposts
breizh2008
lactualaloupe
digitalmaverick
datachick
georgevhulme
Daoudmsund
ageekmom
theArcher77
Top Tweeters in G1:
JojoMalig
DeLuCa
Skoknic
perugini
abad
TSSVeloso
AnonyNewsNet
NoticiasPRO
Darlington_Dick
tomasdev
Top Tweeters in G2:
datachick
data_nerd
DCarsonCPA_NYC
PageViral
SocialMediaroid
nopiedra
estherschindler
juliebhunt
Computerworld
furukama
Top Tweeters in G3:
breizh2008
lactualaloupe
jujusete
PierreBRT
CharlesCHT
samuellaurent
Romain_Pigenel
MlleFunambuline
Fr_ugo
SoLoMoSL
Top Tweeters in G4:
GovernmentDroid
theArcher77
kaskadia
Liberationtech
MagdaAbuFadil
fustat
kmcurry
cartogeek
g33kmate
joellehatem
Top Tweeters in G5:
memberposts
guenotmichel
Mounej
Tweetskenya
Design_RT_Robot
Gigi_deGaray
t_pk
sergei_cl
minkiu
finalcontext
Top Tweeters in G6:
digitalmaverick
ageekmom
DCarsonCPA_MA
6loss
liversedge
SimonMAtkinson
benatipsosmori
SpaceKate
Skinner_M
kelly_plusnet
Top Tweeters in G7:
jackerhack
rasagy
fnicollet
DaveHogue
IdeaKitchn
zainabbawa
merhl
Valentina9
v1pl
phoenixwizard
Top Tweeters in G8:
georgevhulme
tigella
iamneethish
rich1
citrixgurl
acanal
tomstardust
lallodola
carl0s_
yoghi
Top Tweeters in G9:
themba
needalibraryjob
drkassorla
darlingbec
dcbphd
prerakp09
anitaycheng
virginiahyer
lisabsteward
nafpaktitism
Top Tweeters in G10:
kmontenegro
shawncarrie
richdullaghan
yvonnegraphy
thschilling
ohnehin
ijjnews
adriana9diaz
nunezcla
buildCibola
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Open data : le Sénat publiera les résultats des élections sénatoriales
dans un format facilitant la réutilisation des données
Le 25 septembre prochain, pour la première fois, les résultats des élections sénatoriales – ainsi que les listes de candidats – seront publiés en temps réel sur le site du Sénat dans des formats « ouverts » (open data) qui faciliteront la réutilisation de ces données par tous ceux qui en auraient l'usage.
Sur cette page seront disponibles, dès le 19 septembre 2011 s'agissant des candidats, et le 25 septembre en temps réel concernant les résultats des élections, les données, comprenant notamment les listes des sénateurs par circonscriptions, âge, sexe, catégories socioprofessionnelle et mandats électoraux.
Ces données seront disponibles sous la forme de fichiers XLS (Excel) et XML. Vous trouverez dès aujourd'hui sur cette page des fichiers XLS d'exemple reprenant les données des élections sénatoriales de 2008.
Les personnes intéressées par l'accès en temps réel en format XML des données électorales sont invitées à lire la «Notice explicative sur le format et l'environnement des données open data» et à prendre contact avec nos équipes techniques à l'adresse opendata-tech@senat.fr afin, notamment, d'accéder à la plateforme de test.
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Should this be a venn or is it a pyramid?
For more information:
Transparency, Publicity, Accountability – The missing links
Daniel Nauri
Paper for the CONNEX-RG 2 workshop on “Delegation and Mechanisms of Accountability
in the EU”, Uppsala 8-9 March 2007.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2013
Governor Quinn Announces Winners of Illinois Open Technology Challenge
Unprecedented Release and Compilation of Municipal Government Data Fuels Competition to Develop Civic-Minded Apps
CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn announced today the winning entries in the pilot competition of the Illinois Open Technology Challenge (ILOpenTech). A total of $60,000 was awarded to four winning teams of developers who created digital tools that utilize open government data for the benefit of Illinois residents and their communities.
Each winning entry was awarded $15,000 and was focused on one of three pilot locations – Champaign, Belleville and a group of South Suburban communities under the auspices of the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA) – as well as an entry designed for use statewide. The city of Rockford also participated as a fourth pilot community, playing host to a series of developer meet-ups. Rockford’s participation will culminate in an open tech app hackathon later this month, the winner(s) of which will receive a $15,000 prize.
“We commend these enterprising developers for applying their skills toward making municipal government more transparent and accessible for Illinoisans,” Governor Quinn said. “This first-of-its-kind initiative clearly demonstrates that Illinois is taking a national leadership role in embracing digital government and promoting open data, which is spurring more innovation and economic development statewide.”
Winning entries of the competition include:
State of Illinois: iApplied, a web app that tracks job application activity in an effort to help government unemployment security workers streamline the review process for unemployment insurance benefits.
Belleville: Belleville Code, a centralized easy-to-navigate website containing the Revised City Ordinances of Belleville. An essential tool for anyone interested in economic development and entrepreneurship, the website’s content was previously only available within 1,000 pages of PDFs housed on the City Clerk’s website.
Champaign: C-U There!, a “tour guide” app for iPhone that features local news and event feeds, comprehensive parking location information and directories of historic landmarks and local businesses in Champaign-Urbana.
SSMMA: South Suburbs Housing Investment Tool, an online tool that allows users to analyze, score and rank potential housing development projects according to their proposed location. The tool also superimposes the data on a fully navigable map.
“It is my hope that iApplied will reduce government staff workloads, encourage unemployment beneficiaries to apply for jobs and ultimately make more efficient use of taxpayer dollars,” said Tyron Foston of Park Forest, who developed iApplied. “If it improves unemployment benefit operations in Illinois, iApplied could be adopted by other states around the nation.”
Foston decided to create iApplied after speaking with some of his unemployed friends and realizing a need for a more effective, streamlined system to verify eligibility for unemployment benefits. He consulted with businesses and municipal employees who provided positive feedback on the tool. Foston plans to use the award money to further develop iApplied to bring it to market.
ILOpenTech is an initiative of Governor Quinn’s Illinois Innovation Council and is managed by the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) in partnership with the Smart Chicago Collaborative. The program is focused on making Illinois’ open data platform, Data.Illinois.Gov, available and applicable to communities statewide through trainings, community meet-ups and hackathons, bringing together technology developers with civic leaders and community groups. The challenge was sponsored by the Chicago Community Trust, Comcast, Google, Illinois Innovation Council, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Motorola Mobility Foundation.
ILOpenTech is the state’s first sustained, engaged initiative outside the Chicago metro area to work hands-on with local governments and developers on the collection and publication of open data. It has created a strong foundation for starting or accelerating open data projects statewide by helping municipalities understand the nuts and bolts of using open data to drive innovation.
In advance of the competition, ILOpenTech worked with 12 government IT professionals in the four pilot communities to compile and publish 138 new sets of data about local government operations to Data.Illinois.Gov: 34 in Champaign, 15 in Rockford, 12 in Belleville and 77 from the 42 communities in the SSMMA.
“We are excited to explore ways that SSMMA and our member communities can apply the South Suburbs Housing Investment Tool to the housing development process,” said Ed Paesel, executive director of the SSMMA. “ILOpenTech has galvanized South Suburban communities to strengthen their commitment to open data and increased government transparency.”
“Throughout this first phase of ILOpenTech, we’ve seen the tremendous opportunity in gathering and packaging local government data in new ways that are useful to the general public,” said ISTC President and CEO Mark Harris. “By fostering partnerships between municipal governments and the Illinois developer community, we can increase transparency and accessibility, and spark innovation in both government and business.”
About the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition
The Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) is a member-driven, nonprofit organization that works to cultivate and attract research and technology-based investment, talent and job growth in the state. Through strategic public-private partnerships, advocacy efforts and project management, ISTC connects government, academia and industry to leverage the state’s world-class resources to enhance Illinois’ position as a global hub for research, innovation and entrepreneurship. For more information, visit www.istcoalition.org
About the Smart Chicago Collaborative
The Smart Chicago Collaborative is an initiative that helps build the long-term capacity of the city of Chicago and its neighborhoods to realize the transformative potential of information technology. For more information, visit www.smartchicagocollaborative.org
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One of many public shares of the successful We the People petition for Open Access to taxpayer-funded research, from the first day of the petition, May 20, 2012 AKA "OA Monday." Open Science Federation was the primary hub of petition-related activity in Google+ and co-led the social media campaign, there and at @openscience on Twitter.
A Google+ Ripples visualization and a few of the public shares of the successful We the People petition for Open Access to taxpayer-funded research, started in May, 2012 and answered nine months later by The White House. As seen here, Open Science Federation was the primary hub of petition-related activity in Google+ and co-led the social media campaign, there and at @openscience on Twitter.
From: www.connectedaction.net
Connections among the Twitter users who follow @AneeshChopra when queried on May 27, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded).
Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.
A larger version of the image is here:
A detailed list of top between participants in the network is here:
Top most between users:
@aneeshchopra
@whitehouseostp
@opengov
@stevecase
@boltyboy
@hitnewstweet
@health2con
@dominiccampbell
@nuclearminds
@renee_berry
Graph Metric: Value
Graph Type: Directed
Vertices: 196
Unique Edges: 229
Edges With Duplicates: 1195
Total Edges: 1424
Self-Loops: 0
Connected Components: 1
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 0
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 196
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 1424
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 2
Average Geodesic Distance: 1.952624
Graph Density: 0.021559393
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.169
More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/
NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
Marc Smith on Twitter.
This is a memorial screencap of the moment 25,000 of us had signed the We the People petition to the White House for public access to publicly funded US research. Download its original size for a copy suitable for printing and framing, A4 or letter size in the US. Scientist and Open Access advocate David Liao, @lookatphysics on Twitter AKA "D. L. from Holmdel, NJ" on the petition, was the 25,000th signatory. The moment was captured, and first documented on Twitter @openscience and on Google+ by the Open Science Federation.
Image source:
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Read the articles on opensource.com
Taking Collaborative Risk at The State Department
The Accumulo challenge, part I
Created by Meredith Atwater for opensource.com
On January 27th, 2013, with this tweet we celebrated reaching 60,000 signatures on the We the People petition to The White House, for public access to public-funded research. This visualization displays tweets using the shortened link to the petition itself, wh.gov/6TH.
More than eight months after the petition had started and seven months after we had reached the 25,000-signature threshold triggering a White House response, as shown above there were still daily tweets using the petition's official shortlink on Twitter. As also seen above, there were not only 39 retweets of this update, but many other conversations on Twitter following the update, generally discussing that we had been waiting a long time. We would discover later it had been worth the wait.
Open Science Federation, @openscience on Twitter had previously noted the 40,000th signature, the 50,000th signature, and many other moments while waiting for the White House response. We always took the chance to cc the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, @whitehouseostp on Twitter and remind them that we were waiting. Finally, with just over 65,000 signatures on the petition we received not only a positive response, but an historic directive for Open Access and Open Data from The White House, on February 22, 2013.
This is one of the outputs of the Code for America fellows in Chicago. I helped write the application for the work and funded it via the Smart Chicago Collaborative.
Launched September 2012.
Security & Privacy session at Government 2.0 Camp; Friday, March 27, 2009
L-R: Paula Thrasher (@Paula_Thrasher), Gadi Ben-Yehuda (@gbyehuda), Mike Russell (@planetrussell), Bob Gourley (@BobGourley)
Thanks to White House alumnus David Almacy (@almacy) of Edelman for capturing these great images!
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Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
by Daniel X. O'Neil (Bio), May 1, 2008
Tagged: data, everyblock, journalism, open government, opengov
At EveryBlock, where my main role is to work with municipal governments to uncover new data sets, we're experimenting with a new form of journalism where we treat freshly updated public records as block-level news. It's a big job to acquire ongoing feeds of government data, and we have a broader goal of spreading the gospel of open data.
The two objectives:
Get more datasets for EveryBlock so it can be a better Web site
Convince governments to share that data with everyone, not just us
can lead to some cognitive dissonance in the minds of government leaders. They have two dominant templates of interaction for a project like ours, and neither of them fit very well.
First and foremost, we're a journalism project. The template for government dealings with media usually revolves around a particular document or dataset that is frozen in time. The data will most often lead to a single exclusive article or series of articles for a single publication or media company. When I tell them that we want all of the data, everyday, forevermore -- preferably published somewhere over the Web so that others can use the data as well -- this message just doesn't compute.
The other template that governments bring to EveryBlock is that of a technology vendor. They see our site and immediately grasp its utility. They naturally begin to think in terms of EveryBlock serving whatever technology or public communications goals they're currently working. When they start applying this template to us, I have to steer them back to our fundamental nature -- that we're journalists executing on a long-term project, not software vendors looking to lock them into a long-term contract.
This is a lot of heavy lifting, so it's a good thing EveryBlock is just one of many projects that seek to make government data more available, useful and usable. Here's a few of the efforts we've made recently with others:
In December of last year, we met with a couple dozen other organizations to brainstorm the 8 Principles of Open Government Data. The principles attempt to define "open" in the context of the principles and lay down some fundamental definitions for primary terms like "public" and "data". I've been able to use this set of principles in my work with municipalities as we seek to get more data for EveryBlock. It's a very powerful message to tell them that I am not there just as an EveryBlock person. I tell them that it's not about us, it's about the data
Last month, I participated in a panel for the Open the Government and Sunshine Week called, Citizen Self-Help: Finding the Information You Need. We shared a number of tips & tricks on gathering information and talked about the challenges in presenting large data sets in ways that make sense. Sheila Krumholz (Center for Responsive Politics/OpenSecrets.org), David Moore (OpenCongress.org), and Sean Moulton (FedSpending.org) were the other panelists. One of the best questions asked by moderator Greg Elin of Sunlight Labs was, "what if all government data was suddenly made open? would your work be done?" See the entire panel discussion here.
EveryBlock is the local host for the Independent Government Observer's Task Force, a "non-conference" structured around 3 sets of working group activities: Case Law, Municipal Governments, and Government and Copyright Issues. We're looking forward to having a wide mix of people inside and outside government who want to make civic data more useful. I am helping organize the Municipal Government Working Group, so if you have some ideas and want to attend, let me know at at danx at everyblock.com or 773-321-8146.
More on the IGOTF as the summer wears on.