Data-Driven Government and the Ruby Developer
summary
Lists of machine-readable feeds and city/state/federal catalogs exist and people are already building real services from them: a contest yields 47 apps for a $50,000 DC prize valuing $2.3M in output; FAA delay data becomes a searchable site; the Federal Register is refactored into FederalRegister.gov via GulpPulse, a Ruby on Rails app hosted on Amazon EC2 and released open source; analysis of USAspending finds over a trillion dollars of misreported funds, so quality varies even as usable tools appear.
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chapters (39)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:01DataDriven Government
- 1:53Open Government
- 2:36Numbers
- 3:06San Francisco
- 4:03Crime
- 4:29Maps
- 5:15Every Block
- 6:45DataMine
- 7:38Why governments should put data online
- 7:56DC is a pioneer
- 9:23California
- 9:48National Effort
- 10:15Catalog of Data
- 10:35RSS Feed
- 11:05FlyOnTime
- 12:01Kayak
- 13:17US Spending
- 14:20Sunlight Foundation
- 14:54Systemic Risk
- 16:03Legislative Branch
- 16:41GoGaRuCo
- 17:18OB Congress
- 17:43XML
- 18:51State level
- 20:09Open Legislative API
- 21:11Open State Project
- 22:01Information from Data
- 22:24The Federal Register
- 24:39Office of the Federal Register
- 25:18The Design
- 25:55The Developer
- 26:19Federal Register
- 27:16Bob Davis
- 32:32Census Data
- 32:59Money in Politics
- 33:45People in Government
- 34:33San Franciscos problems
- 35:08Conclusion
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