Open Data Day 2018

Join us for another annual celebration of open data! For the seventh time in history, groups from around the world will be gathering to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society. It’ll be a day of learning, experimenting, and exploring what’s possible when companies and governments open their data.

This year, the global themes are: Open Research Data, Tracking Public Money Flows, Open Mapping, and Data for Equal Development, but all projects leveraging open data are welcome!

We will have opportunities:

• work on projects
• learn about open data from government officials
• discuss how open data can be used to improve our communities

The afternoon format will have space for unconference-style sessions led by participants on topics important to them. This could be anything from exploring an open data set to answer questions to workshops on tools related to open data. We will collect and vote on suggestions the day-of, so please bring your ideas!

Who? Neighbors, designers, engineers, data scientists and people living/working in SF

Why? Raising awareness of open data and finding creative insights and solutions to civic issues through its use

What? Solving issues both local, regional, and worldwide through the use of open data

We are gathering available resources and problem statements on a collaborative document in advance of the event.

Keynote

The Intersection of Data and Municipal Efforts and how Fix-It has used data to inform decisions like how to prioritize fixes based on crime and cleanliness data and track and monitor our work, post intervention.

Sandra Zuniga, Director of the Fix-It Team, @fixitteamsf

Sandra Zuniga is the Fix-It Director for the City of San Francisco. Appointed by the late Mayor Ed Lee in 2016 to lead his Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Promise Initiative, Sandra’s work brings both qualitative and quantitative data together to make sound decisions to improve neighborhood quality of life. As Fix-It Director, Sandra works with 7 different City agencies to implement both quick and sustainable fixes in San Francisco, and has championed a number of innovative projects and civic efforts directly informed by unique data analysis. Prior to her appointment she worked at San Francisco Public Works for 8 years, most recently as Central Operations Manager, where she oversaw community engagement, enforcement and apprenticeship employment programs offered by the department.

Lightning Talks

DataSF

Jason Lally

Quick intro and exploration of the Open Data Portal.

Datasette

Simon Willison

Datasette is a tool for publishing data to the internet as a browsable web interface and JSON API. It’s a fast and easy way to take some interesting data and host it somewhere in a way that enables applications to be built on top of it. I’ll show how I used it to build a search engine for trees in San Francisco using data from DataSF.

Brief introduction to the “Wikipedia of maps”

Sam Estabrook

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a global, collaborative open map data project (ODbL license) being built by volunteers. For the last 13 years the map has grown into a primary source of geographic data for many places around the world and for many products and services.

Learning Opportunities

Open Data 101

Jason Lally, Data Services Manager of DataSF

An exploration of the Open Data Portal with our co-organizer and the Data Services Manager for the City of San Francisco.

Your ideas!

The afternoon format will have space for unconference-style sessions led by participants on topics important to them. This could be anything from exploring an open data set to answer questions to workshops on tools related to open data. We will collect and vote on suggestions the day-of, so please bring your ideas!

Schedule

• 8:30 AM Registration and breakfast
• 9:00 AM Opening presentation, keynote by Sandra Zuniga, Fix-It Director, and lightning talks
• 9:50 AM Existing project pitches, unconference logistics
• 11:00 AM First unconference session, projects hacking
• 12:30 PM Lunch
• 1:30 PM Second unconference session, projects hacking
• 3:00 PM Third unconference session, projects hacking
• 4:30 PM Closing
• 5:00 PM Optional (unsponsored) happy hour around the corner at ThirstyBear

Recap of last year’s event