Kin Lane

API Evangelist

 

Civic APIs Workshop

@APIStrat Chicago

September 2014

  • 25 Years Database Engineer
  • 15 Years Web Applications
  • 8 Years Cloud Computing
  • 4 Years Studying APIs


www.apievangelist.com

Target

  • Individuals
  • Startups
  • SMB
  • SME
  • Enterprise
  • Government
  • Institutions

Civic Workshop

Cities

Chicago, IL

80% Of The Top 50 Cities In US

 

Have An Active Open Data Effort

Important To Look Beyond Your City

What Are Other Cities Doing?

  • Open Records
  • Open Government
  • Open Data
  • Open APIs

Why Are Cities Doing It?

  • Transparency
  • Cost Savings
  • Better Serve
  • FOIA
  • Policy

Who Is Doing It In Other Cities?

  • Government
  • NGOs
  • Public
  • Corporate
  • Research

What Are Some Of The Obstacles?

  • Access to Data
  • Quality of Data
  • APIs for Data
  • Apps Built On Data

Let's Take A Look At Them!

New York, NY

Los Angeles, CA

Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

Philadelphia, PA

Phoenix, AZ

San Diego, CA

San Antonio, TX

Dallas, TX

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Detroit, MI

San Jose, CA

Indianapolis, IN

San Francisco

Austin

Memphis, TN

Baltimore, MD

Fort Worth, TX

Boston

Milwaukee, WI

Washington, DC

Nashville, TN

Seattle, WA

Denver, CO

Las Vegas, NV

Portland, OR

Oklahoma City, OK

Tucson, AZ

Albuquerque

Atlanta

Long Beach, CA

Kansas City, MO

New Orleans, LA

Sacramento, CA

Oakland, CA

Miami, FL

Tulsa, OK

Honolulu, HI

Toledo, OH

Building Blocks

Government

Chief Data Officer (CDO)

Non-Governmental Organization

Universities

Evangelists

Hackathons

Meetups

Datasets / API Catalog

Github

Blogs

Calendar

Ideas

Showcase Apps

Submit Data

Civic Focused Cloud Services

Socrata

Junar.com

CitySDK

Open Apps & Tools

Open511

Open311

API Umbrella

CKAN

Socrata Open Data Developer Portal

Socrata Open Data API

Organizations

Code for America

Sunlight Foundation

Open Knowledge

Common Blueprints

Open511

Open311

Hackathon In A Box

Project Open Data

The Open Data Handbook

Research

Open Data 500

US City Open Data Census

Opportunities

Websites


Mobile

Data Work

Scraping

API Design


API Deployment


API Management


API Integration

Reciprocity

Aggregation


Maybe Not The Next Big Startup

Make A Decent Living

Resulting In Important Work

The End


By Kin Lane (@kinlane)