Open Data, Baseball and Government
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Argues that open data is historical, not new, and gives concrete outcomes: launching Data do. G.C after the federal portal failed, creating Vancouver’s Open Motion, and pointing to sabermetrics—Bill James’s box‑score work that took years to feed into the Oakland A’s low‑cost winning roster. Documents timeline delays (data accessible 1978–85, managerial uptake by 1997) and exposes a $3.2 billion Canadian tax‑revenue loss uncovered by charity data analysis; notes citizens already generate 911 location data daily.
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