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PHXdata seeks to unite technologists in the Phoenix area who are engaged in data mining, parsing, visualization, etc. It also serves as a platform for journalists and government officials to connect with civic hackers who want to take public data and make it useful.
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Fwd: Update: Open Government Initiative in Tucson Moves Forward
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A quick follow up.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
...To: andrewgreenhi...@gmail.com
Thanks again to everyone who expressed their support for Tucson's Open
Government Initiative.
I'm happy to report that the Tucson City Council gave unanimous support
yesterday for the Mayor's Office's recommendations. The motion was as... more »
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WebGL Maps
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Remember that discussion of how cool desktop WebGL-powered Google Maps
would be?
Go to maps.google.com and click "Want to try something new?" in the
bottom left corner.
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Fake data
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I'm looking for some good sources of biographical data -- either real,
or fake but validly formed, as appropriate. For as many locales as
possible. Stuff like:
- names
- addresses
- CC numbers
- national IDs
- phone numbers
It would have to be liberally licensed to allow for reuse and
redistribution (attribution is OK).... more »
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EU Hackathon -- big data hackathon Nov 8-9 in Brussels
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I started following Mano Marks on Google+ after the recent #WhereCampPHX event. Today he has a post about an event happening next month in Europe. [link] Here's a quote from Google's Open Source blog: Over the course of 24 hours, hackers will work to make data more accessible... more »
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Digest for phxdata@googlegroups.com - 4 Messages in 2 Topics
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Responding to the mention about out of date technology for speeding tickets - the Mesa court system is largely paperless and the city recently implemented a fully electronic ticket system. I don't think all cars have it yet. If you get one of the high tech tickets, the details will be in the court system, and the website is ready to take your money about 15 minutes after the ticket is issued.... more »
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October PHXdata summary
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Yesterdays meeting was a good time to summarise where the various PHXdata projects are at at the moment. Present were Brian Shaler, David Gleason, Aaron Kavlie, Nick Martin, Andrew Long, Mike Benner, myself. Thanks to everyone who attended. Recast: Brian has been waiting for several months for me to do some backend... more »
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PHXData Hack Day
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Can I get a show of virtual hands for how many might be able to make it to a hack day on Saturday 5th November? Mark
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It's true. We're meeting tomorrow.
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It might be hard to believe, but after a few months off we've finally scheduled another meeting of PHXdata. This one will have no agenda or special presentations. We're simply meeting to catch up and discuss projects like Recast and They Work for AZ, which the group has been working on for the past year or so. Come by for a bit and stay as long as you'd like. If... more »
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