Keynotes 09/17/2021
summary
City government publishes a virtual checkbook with every payment for the last ten years and live dashboards including a COVID-19 spending tracker for over $1 billion (about $745M CARES funds), a neighborhood-level equity index, and maps of illegal dumping and homeless housing; privacy report flags nearly 900 hours of bodycam footage, 3.6M scanned license plates and ~12,000 cameras. Other takeaways: build proprietary data (use sensors, open sets like Common Crawl, or license partners), and treat cleaning, consent and communication as the hard, decisive work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome and conference overview
- 3:17Mayor Eric Garcetti's message
- 5:41Controller Ron Galperin on data transparency
- 14:15Karen Baker-Vink on data justice
- 24:10Gil Elbaz on building proprietary data
- 36:05Dr. Allison Burham on data career insights
- 53:50Closing remarks and thanks
