I do data science for the City of Los Angeles. Prior to that, I worked at Impact Lab. The Center for Data Science and Public Policy. I spend a lot of time thinking about urbanism, data pipelines and tacos. Below are some selected projects of mine. I also write about food. That persona lives at Tacos and Coffe. An open software project designed around replacing some of the tooling for extracting and analyzing school data. More to come! Helped build, proto.

New github hosted website for the St Louis Code for America Brigade. We are a local, volunteer brigade of Code for America, a non-profit organization of citizens, technologists and public servants working together to address civic and community issues through open data and technology. Get involved by coming to our next meetup. This is a day to catalog all our open data resources for everyone to you. We have resources already cataloged at opendatastl. Sign up here at Eventbrite.

Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL. Refer to PostGIS Feature List.

Follow the Life of the Mind. An Up-and-Coming Academic Social Network. Here are 3 salient reasons to join now. As a member, you will be part of an exclusive new service dedicated to scholarly endeavors. Cultivate your intellectual community here. Publish Your Papers, Lectures. Rank, Share and Build Networks. Build, manage, and even market your own Ca.

The Responsive City is the ultimate resource for public officials, government staff, and civic leaders to understand how to leverage new technologies and data platforms to fulfill the promise of effective and efficient local government. An initiative by the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School. And powered by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Improving Service and Communication with Open Data. Monitoring Air Quality and the Impacts of Pollution.

International development, technology, and human rights news. How Designing with the end user undermines ICT4D best practice. Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit. FedEx-Style System for Humanitarian Aid Is Now Free to All. Big Data and Improving Health Care.

Navigate Chicago data using OpenGrid on your computer or mobile device. You can contribute to the OpenGrid project by adding new features or fixing bugs. Explore the health of your neighborhood. Quickly search using keywords or use filters to discover the data you need.