Smart Chicago is a civic organization that works to improve lives in Chicago through increasing access to the Internet, improving digital skills, and developing data products. It creates geographic information system (GIS) tools like Chicago Early Learning, Chicago Works For You, and the Chicago Health Atlas to help residents access services. Smart Chicago also assists the Cook County government with publishing open data and uses social media to identify possible food poisoning cases. The presentation emphasizes that GIS, data sharing, and past projects like EveryBlock have been important to the organization's work.

1. GIS!
Daniel X. O’Neil
ILGISA Regional
Meeting
June 8, 2015
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2. Points
• About Smart Chicago
• We make GIS stuff
• History matters
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3. Our Principles
Technology
Open
Everyone
Chicago
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4. Our Principles
Technology
Open
Everyone
Chicago
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5. We’re all about technology
• Everything we do relates to technology
• We are of and about the Internet
• We believe in the transformative power of
the Internet to change lives and build the
economy for all
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6. We are open
• Open source code
• More importantly: open processes, open
minds, open methods
• Allowing others “in”, wherever that may be
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7. Target market: everyone
• We believe in the power of the network
• The network needs everyone in it in order
for it to be powerful
• We work on solutions that cover the entire
city
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8. Chicago is our middle name
• All of our work is done here
• Unique and thriving ecosystem
• We serve as a model for others
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9. Access, Skills, and Data
Smart Chicago is a civic organization
devoted to improving lives in Chicago
through technology. We work on increasing
access to the Internet, improving skills for
using Internet, and developing meaningful
products from data that measurably
contribute to the quality of life of residents in
our region and beyond.
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10. Access
If you’re not connected
to the Internet, it is
difficult for technology to
be of much use to you.
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11. Skills
If you can’t use the
Internet, being
connected isn’t going to
be all that meaningful.
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12. Data
We construe data as
content. Because there
has to be something
meaningful to look at
once you’re connected
and skilled.
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13. We make GIS stuff
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14. Chicago Early Learning
• Easily find early learning programs near your
home or work
• Compare programs side-by-side to select the
highest quality option for your child
• Kick off the enrollment process
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15. Chicago Works For You
• Citywide dashboard with ward-by-ward
views of service delivery in Chicago
• Slice, dice, view, review
• Sort by whatever interests you
• Automatic, running totals
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16. Chicago Health Atlas
• View citywide information about health
trends and take action near you to improve
your own health
• Our health programs are run by Kyla
Williams
• Also: Smart Health Centers
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17. Cook County Open Data Work
• We have a contract with the
County to assist them with
their data portal
• Pure block-and-tackle
technical assistance
• Helping publish data that
grows the ecosystem
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18. Foodborne Chicago
• We use computers & code to search Twitter for
tweets related to food poisoning in Chicago
• We do as much as we can to automatically zero-in
on the tweets we think are really about a possible
food poisoning case and really coming from Chicago
• Then real humans review the tweets and @reply
back to people with a link back to our site, hoping to
generate legitimate service requests
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19. History
matters.
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20. Sharing is a core GIS value
• There’s no other way to do
your jobs
• The role of ESRI
• The .shp file format
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21. City of Chicago GIS Data
Sharing
• http://www.cityof
chicago.org/da
m/city/depts/doit
/general/GIS/GI
S_Data/Data_S
haring/GIS_Dat
aSharingPolicy.
pdf
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22. Citizen ICAM
• The Chicago Police
Department’s
Information
Collection for
Automated Mapping
(ICAM) Program
• Report from the
National Institute of
Justice, July 2006
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23. EveryBlock
• Would not have been possible without
these two things
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24. Thank you.
@danxoneil
(773) 960-6045
doneil@cct.org
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