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Worked at a catfish restaurant. And that was sort of a part of my life and i paid my way and pay my way through high school. And yes, these were part of the inspiration for the research that i do right now. So my last job were going to graduate school was in a pepsi plant and holds up. And it sort of went from nine to a phd program in Political Science at princeton. And it was a night and day difference. And that contrasts when i came from. That brought up the a lot of the issues and focusing on...

Its like selling 100,000 tickets to a giants game when theres only 38 seats. The speed limit is 5 miles an hour on that street and weve had three cars upside down on that street. You dont see that going 5 miles an hour. Hundreds of people congregate now where there used to be 20. They stand in the streets, they feel entitled, they own it, you can drive up to them, they are aggressive, they think its a park and own it, they threaten the neighbors, including my wife. There are a lot of problems as...

Within our city contracts that the companies that do service for us do not own the data that they generate from us, that they will have a contractual obligation to share that with the city so that we can mine that to the rest of the city, thats advance of opportunities for everybody. I know at the heart of sharing this data, there is going to be a lot more jobs created, a lot more people out therein venting new ways to establish Small Businesses that will improve the way we live and work and pla...

Think is going to be coming up in the city, which is announcement of our new chief data officer. Some people may think that the Budget Office is mostly being countered, but really our office is focused on how do we make government more efficient, how do we make it more effective, and how do we use information to make better decisions. And i think thats why the mayor has asked that the chief data officer sit in my office. So that they have access to Financial Information as well as a team of peop...

People dont know there might be an existent location that they dont know about that could be related to their health. And they could have that instantaneously. These are just three of some of, i think, just hoards of examples that when we allow Data Analytics and this is really to me a Technology Geeks really dream, is to have all of this Data Available so that we can mine them in different ways and very creative ways. And i want to say, again, as someone who has worked in government for 23 year...

Us, thank them for celebrating innovation month in such a exemplary way. And i think were going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. Thank you very much. applause now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of a...

Purchases, weve asked those questions and the answer has been yes, we think inflation stabilized, and well gradually move up, and yes, we think the labor market will continue to improve and we have cut and we use the term measured pace or 10 billion a meeting. Now our forecast is that for the next that we will continue to see those conditions. I think the evidence we are seeing is consistent with that. If we continue to see progress in the labor market, as i expect, and inflation stabilizing or ...

More accountable to all of you as the residents and as our customers here in City Government. And this is why i am proud tomorrow to help move forward legislation that my staff has been working closely with jay nath and mayor leon that will real i do three things. First of all, it will create a chief data officer because we need one person who is responsible and accountable for moving forward our open data agenda. Secondly, were going to require every department in the city to have a representat...

You yourself are interested, id love to talk to you, so, find me after. The role of this person is to figure out how do we build on what weve already done in terms of open data, how do we make government more transparent, what kinds of standards are needed to make sure that data is accessible both within the city, between agencies and also to the private sector and the public. And i think that this person, this data officer really will help us do what many of you in the private sector are alread...

Excuses and demand that kind of performance. Those three das are there to do the arraignment in the morning, 912 they are raining all the cases, doing bail hearings. They arrange a new case; it was my experience even better days when we had better Staffing Levels by the time you get back to your desk as a prosecutor you havent even had a sandwich you pick up and call the victim she has heard from someone in the Public Defenders Office telling her what may or may not be true about the system and ...