Civic Hacking @ MongoNYC
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A little bit about Sunlight Labs and how we use MongoDB.
A little bit about Sunlight Labs and how we use MongoDB.
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Irina Radchenko
We're creating an open source community around these ideas. So far, we have over a thousand members -- people committed to the idea that freeing data and writing code is the best way to make government better. I'm one of sixteen paid staff of the Sunlight Labs, and we're all employed by the Sunlight Foundation, based in Washington, D.C.
Sometimes the phrase government data scares people, because it might conjure up thoughts of personally identifiable data, or classified national security data. That's not what we're trying to open up. We're talking about data that can be made public with compromising anyone's safety.
We're just asking them to publish government data, data that has been paid for by tax dollars, in an open, well-documented format. They open up the data, then we build the apps around that data.
That's really all we want from government: open data sets and open APIs. When government starts building things with that data, they start to editorialize it, and enforce their opinions. We all know that even statistics can be molded to support pretty much any argument. But raw data is as close to an objective truth as we can get.
That's really all we want from government: open data sets and open APIs. When government starts building things with that data, they start to editorialize it, and enforce their opinions. We all know that even statistics can be molded to support pretty much any argument. But raw data is as close to an objective truth as we can get.
That's really all we want from government: open data sets and open APIs. When government starts building things with that data, they start to editorialize it, and enforce their opinions. We all know that even statistics can be molded to support pretty much any argument. But raw data is as close to an objective truth as we can get.