TIGER/Line Data in the Cloud - Tom MacWright
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Tom MacWright's CrisisCamp Ignite presentation given at the World Bank.
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TIGER/Line Data in the Cloud - Tom MacWright
- 1. TIGER/Line Data in the Cloud Making Open Data Useful
- 6. 14,000+ Districts + TIGER/line
- 7. Federal Education Budget Program
- 13. Infrastructure
Editor's Notes
- Hi, I’m Tom MacWright and I’d like to talk about making Open Data useful with open-source tools and cloud computing. Specifically, I’ve been working with TIGER/line data, which is a great example of incredibly useful data that we only started to tap into
- In the public domain and easily combined with existing data, including 200 gigabytes of Census data
- Every school district in the country, which is keyed so you can combine it with census data.
- Cottage industry of people selling DVDs of free data
- Now it’s fast. You can create a new server in minutes, attach this data in minutes, and start off with ready-made servers
- The historical problem is that slow computers and licensed data meant that there were limited, slow ways to consume geographical data
- But we can do a lot better. Mapping in the cloud, you can put together a system that scales and performs and everyone else can learn from your progress