On April 26, 2012,

1. City of Chicago Open Data Webinar
Webcast Recorded: 4-26-12

2. Resources
For full recording of webinar:
http://www.socrata.com/events/view-webinar-chicagos-smarter-city-transformation/
For full transcript:
http://www.socrata.com/discover/chicago-open-data-webinar-transcript/
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3. Our Speakers
 Brett Goldstein, Chief Data Officer, City of Chicago
 Danielle DuMerer, Project Manager, City of Chicago
Hosted by Saf Rabah, VP of Marketing, Socrata
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4. Today’s Agenda
 Chicago’s Vision for Open Data
 Chicago’s Implementation of the Vision
 New culture of transparency and accountability
 Creating a sustainable program
 Enabling Performance Management
 Open Data for better decision making
 Tapping into the developer community
 Collaboration and data convergence with the County, and the State
 Results and Impact
 What’s in Store? Chicago’s Future Direction
 Live Q&A
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5. The Vision for Open Data
“Data belongs to the people, and there is an enormous
desire on the part of residents to participate in
government and find ways to contribute.”
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6. Realizing the Vision
Open Data Innovations
City of Chicago

7. data.CityofChicago.org
• Worked with various departments and agencies to identify high-value
datasets like Crimes, Building Permits, and Food Inspections
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8. Open Data for Performance Management
• Greater accountability and
transparency with residents enabled
by displaying KPIs for City services
• Created performance management
tool with minimal time and
investment
• Fulfilled early goal of Rahm
Emanuel Administration
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9. Better Decision Making
• Finding patterns in 311
calls for service…
• Identify the first incident
to prevent the next five.
• Found correlation
between street light
outages and garbage
cart theft
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10. Community Apps
• Around 60 apps submitted to
city hackathon
• Civic Developers have created new ways to add meaning to city data
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11. The End of Data Silos? Data Convergence
One interface. One API. Three different organizations.
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12. Results and Impact
 Site Stats:
 328 original datasets
 1,450,316 Page Views
 471,390 Embeds
 1,000+ User-created
views
 50+ Apps
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13. Results and Impact
 Impact:
 FOIA reduction
 Accountability
 Cost-effective information delivery
 Smart decision-making
 Civic engagement
 Civic developer community
 Residents
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14. Questions & Follow up
Please send your questions to
Danielle DuMerer
danielle.dumerer@cityofchicago.org
Saf Rabah | Socrata
saf.rabah@socrata.com
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15. Thank You!
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