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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 the demand side, as we were talking about it, will be there because there is going to be someone there. There have to be people working with it who are getting out...

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. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a rea...

Responses with really insightful conversations that would come out of it. I think that type of collaboration is only going to make the portal better. The more people use it the better its going to get. We also experienced some challenges, you know. We did a lot of work with the data. We did a lot of data, put things together. We did things like added value, added certain locations. And i would love to be able to pull that back up to a shared community portal. From what i can tell it wasnt necessarily promoted at this time, but i think there is a lot of value in that. And shannon, interrupt me ...

Own toes and give away our own data and make the company worthless. So, its tough. Its a definite fine line between the two. Today we announced that were going to give crowding data to the city so youll know where crowds are in the city and when they occur and where they occur. And that really isnt commercially viable for us. So, something we can provide to the city without any repercussions financially, which is great. We want to do more of those things. I made the decision to release this data about three minutes before a speech that i gave at spur a couple weeks ago. And literally, yeah, i ...

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