OpenGrid is an open source project that allows users to explore and query public open data from various sources through a single interface. It was originally created in Chicago to provide situational awareness across multiple city departments. WindyGrid, used by Chicago's emergency center, is now built on the OpenGrid codebase while using additional private data. OpenGrid is deployed on Amazon Web Services and is available on their marketplace so other cities and organizations can easily deploy it alongside tools like Plenario that aggregate open data from various portals.

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Tom Schenk Jr.
@ChicagoCDO
June 21, 2016
OpenGrid
Open source, highly-replicable situational awareness

5. WindyGrid
Ahead of the NATO
summit, the Chicago Chief
of Staff asked a simple
question: why must one
ask multiple for
departments for data?
WindyGrid was born.

7. opengrid.io
In 2016, the program was
re-written and released as
a public program allowing
users to explore public,
open data. This approach
helps broaden the open
data movement to non-
expert users who want to
find out more about their
community.

9. OpenGrid is an open source project that can be deployed in your
organization.

10. More Features
• Allows users to save
queries
• Supports secure logins
and could integrate with
LDAP or Active
Directory
• Administration and user
management

11. Pairing OpenGrid with databases and APIs
Beneath the HTML/JS user
interface is a service layer
that pulls data from a data
source and communicates
to the UI via an API. This
will provide flexibility to use
a variety of data storages
See: opengrid.rtfd.io

12. WindyGrid: Now built on OpenGrid
Today, WindyGrid is built
on OpenGrid’s codebase,
which allows our
emergency center to
monitor events using
private data. WindyGrid
relies on non-public data
stored in MongoDB to
meet the city’s needs.

13. MongoDB Powered for Internal Data
db.data_set.findOne()
{
“what” : {
…describes what happened…
},
“where” : {
“latitude” :
“longitude” :
},
“when” : {
“timestamp” :
},
}

14. Chicago’s Open Data Portal launched in 2011 and now contains over 600
data sets, available in machine-readable but not-so-human readable data.

15. Plenario: Aggregating Open Data
OpenGrid is compatible
with Plenario, which
ingests open data from
Socrata and CKAN data
portals. Developed by the
University of Chicago, it’s a
complimentary project to
OpenGrid to navigate your
open data even easier.

16. Internal
Data +
Public
Data +

17. Ensuring Longevity

18. OpenGrid.io on AWS
In 2015, City of Chicago
was awarded the grand
prize for the “Dream Big”
category for Amazon’s City
on a Cloud competition. As
a result, Chicago has been
awarded with $50,000 in
AWS credits that will be
applied to running
OpenGrid.

19. OpenGrid is a project completed in the public
developers@cityofchicago.org Google Forum opengrid.rtfd.org
Public bug reports Public meeting notes New developer calls

20. Introducing Public Developer Phone Calls
Starting July 8:
Friday at 1 PM Central
Sign-up at
developers@cityofchicago.org
Or
digital.cityofchicago.org

21. AWS Marketplace as a Civic App Store
AWS Marketplace allows
for quick and easy
deployment of apps.
Instead of relying on
adopting code, OpenGrid
for Smart Cities is on AWS
Marketplace to quickly
deploy OpenGrid for your
own city, state, agency,
non-profit or company

22. AWS Marketplace as a Civic App Store
COMING
SUMMER 2016

23. Thank you!