Guest Post
My post for the week is aaaaaaaall the way over at the Sunlight Foundation blog. Safe travels!
View ArticleFollowing money
Life has been super busy lately, so here’s another link-and-run: My friend Kit and I held an event today that was part hackathon, part data dive, and mostly about exploring the influence of money on...
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Busybody
I’ve been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week’s post. More beer for everyone! Here’s a list of things I’ve done between my last post and now. (Why yes, this is a pretense for...
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Does one-party control stifle transparency?
Massachusetts is not a great place for transparency. We have some of the worst public access to information of any state in the country, and legislators have barely any oversight or accountability....
View ArticleFifth time’s the charm: a case study in data accessibility
I try to explore a bit of government data every month. Previously, I’ve just grabbed data from the Sunlight Foundation’s cleaned up APIs. This month, I tried out data.gov. It was a much more harrowing...
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Release of toxics in MA over two decades
As I mentioned in my last post, I chose to look at the EPA Toxics Release Inventory this month. The full dataset was way too large for my little netbook to handle, so I filtered the results to my home...
View ArticleOpen Data Day
This Saturday, February 23rd, is Open Data Day, “a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public...
View ArticleMy life in links
A round up of recent goings on: Open Data Day was great. Tate Williams, an Open Media Boston reporter, wrote about it. Our OpenHatch event at Harvard also went well, I thought. I’ve got a blog post...
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Word games
I’ve been hearing good things about the Capitol Words API for months now, so I decided to try doing something with it. I wrote a script which queries the API for instances of a given word and returns...
View ArticleHacking the hackathon
Friends, romans, civic tech enthusiasts, lend me your eyeballs. I come to bury hackathons, not to praise them. Maybe it’s just the crowd I run with, but it’s hard to find a kind word about hackathons...
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