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April 10, 2023
Yay for DSSG!
Daniel X. O’NeilJune 20, 2014@danxoneil
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Smart Chicago
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Our PrinciplesTechnology
OpenEveryoneChicago
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The Strategy
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Access, Skills, and Data
• Access to the Internet for all– Broadband at home– Public computer centers and Community
technology centers– Next generation stuff
• Skills once you’re on the Internet– All on ramps
• Data so that there’s something worth looking at once you’re on and know how to work it– Apps– Infrastructure
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The Founders
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2 Philanthropies and1 Municipality
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation– A center for ideation and conception– 2007 report, “The City that NETWorks”– The primary source of funding
• Chicago Community Trust– Provides housing for the organization and is fiscal agent– At the center of funding and knowledge for the region– Critical financial, human resources, and other support
• The City of Chicago– The most important policy lever in the region– Departmental relationships– Getting things done
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The Role ofHumans in Big Data
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I <3 big data.
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And much of my careeris devoted to data.
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So where are all the people?
Big data is empty of humans.
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Humans have use.
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So How Do We Fix That?
Humansbeatdata.
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Civic User Testing Group
• Direct, sustained engagement with the regular residents for whom the tools are made.– UX testing– Community meetings– Computer training
• $5 gift cards/ $20 gift cards• Result: 800+ people in 50 wards
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The Work
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Data Round Trips
• Connect Chicago: data taken from City data portal
• Data was improved by seven teams of two people each– they physically visited every single location in our database
• That data now forms the basis for the City data
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Chicago Works For You
• A city services dashboard that helps people see the entire corpus of the city at once
• Not their little slice, but all of us• We’re in this together, but we will
have a hard time seeing things that way unless we have tools that frame it that way
• Interface is dictator@danxoneil
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And Lola Chen!
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“Any alert person canride the streets of Chicago
and see the patternof pothole problems.The ride might take
4 hours or so.The making notes might
take 1 hour.”@danxoneil
Random Advice
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DON’T GET MUCKETYMUCKITIS@danxoneil
RESEARCH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING@danxoneil
NOT EVERYTHING IS AGITHUB REPOSITORY
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