Open data

Be a Data Superhero We all know the journey that Alice took down the rabbit hole. In her Wonderland, inanimate things came alive and spoke to Alice, guiding her journey. It is real now, there are things that talk to us today, give us notifications, and guide our way to a safe exit during a fire emer…

Do you know how your city makes decisions about adding new public transport, or how many handicap spaces to add to a parking lot? City, County, State, and Federal governments make a lot of decisions – from the city planning to electoral votes – based upon data you provide during Census Surveys. When…

A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to produce 2 Exabytes (2×1018 bytes) of data until 2012; now we produce…