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More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. Because you cant jus...

Here, too, while people are stepping up. Weve been doing this for awhile now. One thing weve learned in this innovation space, people matter. Like you can build technology you want, platform you want, thats great. Its the people who are doing it that matter and theyre going to get stuff done. This has some of the best people, shannon and jay are doing t. Theyve been doing it awhile so they know what theyre doing. Its great. Last year i was building this adopted tree app and i found it on the dat...

The neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation....

I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. Because you cant just open up the data. You have to do things like this, where you get the Community Together or you have people actually talking about it because...

Button data which by itself is, well, im an energy guy, an energy geek. I consider with confidence. It is not interesting, necessarily, but when you take your green button data and you give it to some companies, they have Amazing Things they can do with that green button to, again, save you money. Something as simple as if you look at your green button which is kilowatt hours for those that are engineering minded, a line grab if you think about t some companies today can look at your green butto...

Hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clea...

Education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Fran...

Some companies today can look at your green button and figure out if your refrigerator is broken function need a new air conditioner. Thats real money if you think about it at a commercial or industrial scale. That is one data set. To your other question about what is the federal government doing, were seeking not just an energy, but across the government to engage entrepreneurs and innovators across all the different sectors. For those of you familiar with the history of the Health Data Initiat...

Question about the history and we really look to recent examples to see the dura power of open data sets. My favorite examples are weather when weather data was released, weather channel. Com and many others, and gps Global Positioning system. We know the history there was the military infrastructure that liberated public consumption and use, but the things we expected such as navigation, but also things that people didnt necessarily anticipate in the beginning such as precision crop farming whi...

There is so much available for startups right now. Its hard to choose a few favorites. Wow, i can tell you what some of the best ones that people have told me are the most popular so that will be like many other things in the startup world, its not the government that is going to come up with the answer. Its partners working together to find the solution. So, one data set that comes to mind, i want to do a show of hands. I get this question a lot in terms of how much of the work is getting out t...