sunlightcities: MuckRock has a great investigation into the response time on FOI requests. Read the full article here
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You just gotta do what you wanna do and do it good. wise words from David Brent Keuning. (via takemeoverthisspell) Your words of wisdom for the week. 🙂
People say you can lie with data, but you can lie a whole hell of a lot easier without it. @crojasic Want to arm yourself with some urbanism facts? Then check out #citydata, our ongoing tumblr series. (via thisbigcity) 🙂
sunlightcities: Streetmix just got remixed. Lookin’ good.
sunlightcities: In July, NYC released arguably one of the most valuable datasets in the country, their PLUTO data (aka their extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level). The opening up of this data (with support by NYC’s open data law) is significant, because previously PLUTO data cost $300 per borough ($1500 for …
codeforamerica: Brigade Hangout - City Hall and Civic Hackers: Lessons from Raleigh To watch later.(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
stoweboyd: (via Odesk) Published so I can read more closely on a bigger screen. Interesting but no Rucker verdict yet.
Thomas Wendt, Information Cartilage
stoweboyd: via Information spaces are changing more rapidly than we can design for them. As context-aware computing and artificial intelligence are advancing into consumer markets, the need to structure information and meaning around adaptive systems has never been more important. The past century has seen significant variation in the ways that information is ordered, disordered, …
emergentfutures: ‘Medical Instagram’ helps build a library of reference photos for doctors The power of the visual sharing that makes platforms such as Instagram so popular has been harnessed by retailers like Ask CT Food to share knowledge about cooking, but could the same be done for the medical world? Full Story: Business Insider
laboratoryequipment: Collaboration Aims to Support Smart CitiesCEA-Leti today announced that a group of European and Japanese companies, research institutes, universities and cities will work together in the ClouT project to deliver ways for cities to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to become smart cities.ClouT, which stands for “cloud of things,” will …
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 