2. Every City and Community is Part of a National Data Network
HEALTH
SAFETY
JOBS
ENERGYTRANSPORTATION HOUSING
ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
3. Open Data is a Renewable National Resource in Every City and
Community
Sensor
data
Census
ACS Data
EPA
NOAA
Weathe
r
Census
Economic
Data
USDA
DOE
Electric Utility
Data
HEALTH SAFETY JOBS ENERGY TRANSPORTATION HOUSING ENVIRONMENT
HUD
Source: 3D image view Google Images
4. Closed Data
Sensor
Data / IoT
Open Data
New Business Models are Created at the Intersection
Of Data Networks and Social Networks
Provides
real-time
actionable
information
Provides
contextual
data
Secured data – provides
specificity
Innovation occurs @ the intersection
5. An Open Data Ecosystem is Emerging that is Fueling
Innovation
The #hackhousing hackathon was
sponsored by Zillow in partnership with
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) as well as the
Census Bureau.
400
RegisteredAttendees
Fromavarietyofbackgroundsincluding:
• Government
• Commercial/private-sector
• Academia
• Entrepreneurs
44
ProjectTeams
6. Open Data is Core to the Mission and Strategy of the Department of
Commerce
7. The U.S. Census Bureau is the Leading Source of Open Data
About our Nation’s People, Places and Economy
8. A Customer Focused Data Perspective
• Engagement model
• Timely, accurate, clean, authoritative data
• Context for a “conversation”
• Clarity: What problem are we trying to
solve
• Both public service and business
motivation among the public and industry
Simply releasing open data is not enough
For Data to Have an Impact, you need:
9. ● Enhance usability and access to Census data
through public APIs
● Streamline how open data is used to build apps
for cities through open-source tools
● Support rural communities through USDA
integration
● Foster an ecosystem to improve interoperability
across data silos at federal and local level
● What’s included: javascript library, technical
guides, and github repository.
CitySDK : Extending the Bureau API to a Platform that Promotes
Engagement Among Ecosystem Data Producers and Consumers
10. What Makes the City SDK a “Platform”
for both Internal and External Innovation?
Provides
real-time
actionable
information
Provides
contextual
data
SENSOR
DATA
OPEN
DATA
POPULATION
ECONOMY
WEATHER
TRANSPORTATION
ENERGY
SAFETY Smart
Cities
Services
Platform (ecosystem) enables interaction
among data consumers and Producers
Cities Provide
The Context for
Value Creation
11. Feedback from Data Dissemination Specialists
National Day of Civic Hacking June 2015
This Year Compared to Previous
Ryan Dolan, Minneapolis
“It doesn’t even compare to the other hackathons
I’ve worked at. Before I was begging people to
use the data, this time had a line of people to talk
to me. The democratization of data is going to
create a wow factor that has the biggest impact
through the API.”
Scaling Outreach in Developer Community
Gerson Vasquez, Atlanta
“We now have lot of momentum, but we’d like to build on it. Why
not use the same tools the software developers are using (slack,
github, hackpad, etc.) to reach them virtually — i.e. people in
Miami need to know that our group exists.”
Internal Team Development Opportunities
Alexandra Barker, Boston
“Consider adding concrete measures to our outreach goals
and develop internal training for our team. We don’t
currently have training for this audience of our users. ”
12. Case Study: Purshable
• 1st Place Finish - Web app to help grocery stores
get fruits and vegetables into the hands of high-
need populations.
• Used Census Geocoder API and CitySDK and
demoed to US Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil
• Online business built in a weekend!
14. Open Data Also Enables Internal Innovation
• Understand and improve your data management
process (OMB 13-13) and supply chain
• Help customers Find and Connect data sets
• Create an API Lifecycle Management Process
How?
Think and act as a big data product company and address internal and external
customer needs
15. Accelerating Time to Value
COLLECT PROCESS DISSEMINATE
INTERNAL INNOVATION
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND
EFFECTIVENESS
EXTERNAL PUBLIC
INNOVATION
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Enable the market to drive external innovation -with your open data-
and let that customer engagement drive internal operational efficiencies and effectiveness
Government as a Big Data Platform
16. Digital Strategy: A Framework to Re-imagine Census Operations
DigitalStrategy
Constructs
• The Digital Strategy provides a
framework to effectively re-
imagine Census business
• Providing access to government
data in consumer-friendly ways
to suit changing customer
demands driven by
technological innovation
• Through the Digital
Transformation Strategy, the
Census Bureau is addressing
consumer-centric dissemination
of data
High-level Business Operations of the Census Bureau
Consumer-Centric Services
Information-Centric Organization
Shared Technology Platform
Collect
Data
Analyze
Data
Disseminate
Data
Digital Strategy:
Guiding Principles for Business Transformation Applied to the Census
Bureau
17. Open data is a catalyst for internal and external innovation
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Describe a recent case study
Technical Features:
Open source (GeoJSON) shapefiles packaged with statistical data
Built in FIPS code translation for lat/long, addresses, ZIP codes
Modular architecture which dramatically reduces time to create mashups with 3rd party data
Developed in JavaScript for maximum flexibility, interoperability and speed from first blush to a working web application
Get nested shapes and associated statistical data by uploading a custom geographic boundaries
The City SDK is an open data Platform-based on the Census API. What makes it a “Platform” is its ability to promote interaction among data consumers and producers. Cities and communities provide context or the opportunity for services, innovation, and social good. The interaction created among data producers and consumers is characteristic of a growing ecosystem involving academia, industry, innovation hubs, and other open government data sources and initiatives. The Federal data supply chain is changing. Prior focus was about releasing high value data sets – ideally through API’s. Federal agencies like the Census Bureau continue to focus on data dissemination and making our open data discoverable and useable. What we are finding out is that the “scaling” of our dissemination and value creation process is enabled by the market through new business models. The emerging integration of data networks with socioeconomic data networks is leading to new value creation in cities and communities.
The Purshable team was able to present their app to US Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil during the National Day of Civic Hacking.
This app implements two functionalities: evaluate and explore. In the evaluate page, after a user inputs an address name, a zip code, an “accessibility score” based on different features (details come later in this document) will be computed and returned to the user and a short summary report will be generated as well. Alternatively, in the explore page, a user can specify a specific geographical container (i.e., state, county or census tract), and a specific sub-level of places to rank (i.e., county, city, or zip code). As a result accessibility scores will be computed at the requested container and level of places and a ranked list of places will returned to the user. Particularly, each feature that is involved in the ranking is scored on a 0 to 100 scale and assigned a weight in the final scoring function. By default, all features have the same weights; but the weights can be adjusted by the users according to their different preferences.
