This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. One of the great promises of open government this decade has been that it can serve as a catalyst for a new civic-centered… [[ …
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: predictive analytics
Open Data Nation: Using Open Data to Integrate Predictive Analytics into City Operations
Posted in Benefits of open data, Big Data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Saving money, Smart communities Tagged with: data, Data-Smart City Solutions, open data, predictive analytics, Sean Thornton, Smart Cities
BI Case Study: Building an Open Data Portal
This article was written by Paul Murphy, IT Program Leader at Co-operatives UK, about his experience using business intelligence technology to centralize years of messy historical data and create an open, explorable web portal. Do you have an interesting business…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Private Company Publisher Tagged with: business intelligence, Co-operatives UK, data portal, Modeling, open data, Paul Murphy, predictive analytics, Text Analytics, Web Analytics, Workforce Analytics
Taking Predictive Analytics to the Beach
For Chicagoans, few things are as enjoyable as a day at the beach. That joy, however, is contingent on clean waters that are free of contaminants such as E. coli bacteria. This year, Chicago is piloting an analytical model to enhance…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Public safety, Quality of life Tagged with: beaches, Datasmart, E. coli, open data, pollution, predictive analytics, Sean Thornton, water quality
Predict. Share. Deploy. With Open Data Science – Jan 20 Webinar
Building, tuning, sharing, deploying, and scaling predictive models is challenging, and rarely covered in statistics class. Learn how to make data science work in the real world in this webinar.
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Chicago Is Predicting Food Safety Violations. Why Aren’t Other Cities?
US FDA / Flickr The three dozen inspectors at the Chicago Department of Public Health scrutinize 16,000 eating establishments to protect diners from gut-bombing food sickness. Some of those pose more of a health risk than others; approximately 15 percent…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Saving money, Smart communities Tagged with: Algorithms, Chicago, CityLab, Food, food hygiene, Food Safety, Julian Spector, open data, prediction, predictive analytics, Smart Cities, violations
Big data triggers predictive journalism
Biz Stone, the cofounder of Twitter, once regaled a panel audience with a story of how he read a tweet about an earthquake around 60 miles south of him — and then felt it seconds later. This simple story conveys…
How New York City Is Using Big Data To Serve Its Residents
City government works better when the people running it can anticipate problems and when the residents it serves know what’s happening in their neighborhoods. For years, New York City has been using predictive data analytics to save lives and taxpayer dollars. A…
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Smoke Signals: Open data & analytics for preventing fire deaths
Enigma: “Today we are launching Smoke Signals, an open source civic analytics tool that helps local communities determine which city blocks are at the highest risk of not having a smoke alarm. 25,000 people are killed or injured in 1…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Smart communities Tagged with: Datakind, enigma_io, Enigma.io, fire, impact, open data, predictive analytics, Red Cross, smoke, smoke detector
Big Data predicts extreme weather blackspots for UK emergency services
5 September 2015 – UK start-up company, KnowNow Information Ltd, is revolutionising how UK emergency services can plan for, and respond to, extreme weather conditions, to help save lives and millions of pounds. Using Big Data and the UK’s most…
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Analytics with a Side of Discretion
In recent months we’ve seen many new technologies and partnerships aimed at helping local government workers conduct restaurant health inspections more effectively and efficiently. In Boston, participants in a civic innovation competition are using Yelp and city data to develop…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Transparency Tagged with: analytics, Datasmart, discretion, Food, Food Safety, health, inspections, local government, predictive analytics, public health, restaurants, Stephen Goldsmith