The CMD-D|Masters of Automation one-day conference in early August would have been right up my alley: It’ll be a full day of exploring the current state of automation technology on both Apple platforms, sharing ideas and concepts, and showing what’s possible—all with the goal of inspiring and furthering development of your own automation projects. Fortunately, […]
In anticipation of #ianno17 Hack Day, I wrote about my plans for the event, one of which was to revisit my own Python wrapper for the nascent hypothes.is web API. Instead of spending much time on my own wrapper, I spent most of the day working with Jon Udell's wrapper for the API. I've been […]
I'm looking forward to hacking on web and epub annotation at the #ianno17 Hack Day. I won't be at the I Annotate 2017 conference per se but will be curious to see what comes out of the annual conference. I continue to have high hopes for digital annotations, both on the Web and in non-web […]
In 2006, after weblogging for some 6 years while working at UC Berkeley, I took on a new role as a data architect on campus. Â I felt it important to keep blogging about my professional interests but to do so under a new moniker. Â I came up with "data unbound" to name the passion I […]
In July, I wrote about why I've been looking for Recovery TAFS and appropriations. In an attempt to get an official list from the US federal government, Eric Kansa and I sent a FOIA letter to OMB to request the release (in electronic form) of a complete and up-to-date list of all Recovery Act (ARRA) […]
Tagged ARRA, FOIA, OMB, Recovery Act, recovery.gov, stimulus, TAFS, TAS, treasury account symbols, treasury appropriation fund symbolsToday, my colleagues Erik Wilde, Eric Kansa, and I are pleased to announce our new report "Web Services for Recovery.gov" and its companion website recovery.berkeley.edu.  Last week, the redesign of Recovery.gov was made public to much fanfare. Recovery.gov is the U.S. government’s official website for publicly documenting how funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment […]
Tagged recovery.gov trackingRusty Talbot posted the following request for feedback on the Sunlight Labs list this morning The Recovery, Accountability, & Transparency Board wishes to have an open discussion with all interested developers about how data should be made available via Recovery.gov. As you are all aware, a new version of Recovery.gov will be released soon. From […]
Tagged recovery.gov trackingI'm starting to prepare my notes for the pre-conference seminar Creating and Enabling Web Mashups that I'll be leading on November 3, 2009 at 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.  I'm looking for good examples to use in the seminar. One that I'm contemplating is showing how to import the Educause 2009 calendar, which is available as […]
Tagged calendars, Educause, Google calendarThere is a huge amount of government and socio-economic data in general gathered at the county level. It would be nice to be able to plot that data on an desktop or online map (e.g., Google maps). This morning I posted a question on the Sunlight labs mailing list asking for some help: I would […]
Tagged demographics, Google Maps API, maps, US countiesI'll be at TransparencyCamp 2009 tomorrow (You can follow the conference tweets at #tcamp09, whether or not you'll be in physical attendance.) Since TCamp09 is an unconference, any formal agenda will be determined at the conference by sessions attendees propose there. I'd like to see and attend sessions on the following topics: projects/techniques to track […]