Boston is a hotbed of innovation. People are doing extremely cool, amazing things here, starting businesses, creating markets. But the social impact on our region is minimal. My talk is about combining my passion for database tech with a community focus to create demo applications that not only sell product, but also enrich the city. I highlight a location-aware safety app I built with City of Boston open crime data to make Pokemon Go a safer space.
21. Timeâs Up!
âą About your speaker:
â Name: Raj Singh
â Company: IBM Analytics
â Email: rrsingh@us.ibm.com
â Social Media: https://twitter.com/rajrsingh
â Quick bio: Raj is a Developer Advocate and Open Data
Lead at IBM Cloud Data Services. He specializes in all things
geospatial and hacks on analytics in R/dashDB and
Spark/iPython notebooks. He's currently driven to make CDS
the best place to obtain and exploit comprehensive, curated
open data sets for business. Raj pioneered Web mapping-as-a-
service in the late 1990s with Syncline, a startup he co-founded.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Been in data for 24 years. Back then we had to create all our own data, using heads-up digitizing tablets with weird little mouse-like devices.
So excited about open data because used to be that 80% of work was creating data
Now we focus on prep and use
If we can make that kind of progress in 24 years, the state of government open data in a few years should be amazing. The stage weâre at now is just the beginning of the curve.
When I say Think globally and act locally, Iâm talking about data-based work. Safety, human rights, food security, income inequality, etc. are global issues, but thereâs a lot that can be done right here in our backyard using open data.
And itâs not just about tech for societal benefit. We can do good and do well at the same time.
So I decided I would build an app that let you know when you were heading towards an area that, based on crime data, looked like a bad bet.
http://us-city.census.okfn.org
http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/sanfrancisco
https://data.police.uk/data/
by 2011 lower layer super output area (LSOA)
https://data.cityofboston.gov/Public-Safety/Crime-Incident-Reports-August-2015-July-2016-/ry9x-evjv
Nice standardized UI for the common person to browse, query and visualize data
Provides a SQL-like query language for developers
But itâs only as good as the data cities put in itâŠ
No standard for coding
No standard for release schedule
Varying location accuracy (points, slightly generalized points, blocks, etc)