Aneesh Chopra – US Elections Infrastructure

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

He was asked about the infrastructure of the US elections process.

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Aneesh Chopra – Integrity of Data

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

He was asked about the Integrity of Data that is out there.

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Aneesh Chopra – Make Open Data real for people

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

He was asked how to make open data real for people during the Q&A.

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Consumer Internet Privacy - Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

He was asked about the government using open data and privacy concerns during the Q&A.

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Aneesh Chopra answers question about Open Data Sets

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

He was asked about Open Data Sets during the Q&A.

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Aneesh Chopra at Data Days Cleveland

Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States was the keynote speaker at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

 He is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government and gave a look at the current and future state of using data and open technology.

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Digital C’s Lev Gonick introduces Aneesh Chopra at Data Days Cleveland

Cleveland Councilman Brian Cummins was one of the spearheads behind Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

He thanked the supporters and then introduced Lev Gonick, CEO of Digital C.  Lev then introduced the keynote speaker Aneesh Chopra who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States.

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Understanding and Using Census Data – Data Days Cleveland

Tim Sarko, Data Dissemination Specialist U.S. Census Bureau, spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  His presentation was titled Understanding and Using Census Data and this video is part of it.

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Why not Wi-Fi for the entire city of Cleveland?

At Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data, a question was asked about why we can’t just make Wi-Fi available to the entire city.  Leon Wilson, Chief of Digital Innovation and CIO of the Cleveland Foundation, answered.

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Data Days Cleveland – Leon Wilson of Cleveland Foundation

Leon Wilson is the Chief of Digital Innovation and CIO of the Cleveland Foundation. He spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

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Digital Divide: Literacy, Access and Equity

Samantha Schartman, Incorporating Board Member at Connect Your Community Institute, spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

Her topic was the Digital Divide: Literacy, Access and Equity.

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Patient Portals & Broadband Internet Inequality

Adam Perzynski PhD of  Center for Health Care Research and Policy Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

His topic was Patient Portals & Broadband Internet Inequality.

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Mapping Broadband Health at Data Days Cleveland

Amy R. Sheon, PhD, MPH Executive Director, Urban Health Initiative at Case Western Reserve University spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

She showed maps and data indicating that Broadband is an equity issue that has many effects on health.

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Obesity, Smoking, etc. in Cleveland – 500 Cities Project at Data Days

Scott Frank, MD, MS from the Case Western Reserve University spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

Dr. Frank used data from the 500 Cities Project to map conditions and behaviors such as obesity and smoking.   The 500 Cities project is a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation.

The purpose of the 500 Cities Project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States.

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Data Days Cleveland 2017 – Center for Community Solutions

Kate Warren, Policy and Planning Associate at The Center for Community Solutions, spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event at the Global Center for Health Innovation bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.

Warren works with the Research team on applied research, analysis, mapping, and data visualization, all with the goal of making data accessible and understandable to people and organizations who can leverage it to improve the community.

 She showed resources for the community including county health and human services profiles, Cleveland neighborhood profiles, and neighborhood asset maps


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When not to make a map of your data

Will Skora from Open Cleveland and the Cleveland Public Library gave a presentation on Mapping 101 with Cherie Chung of Digital C at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.   

In this snippet of the presentation Will gives an example of a really bad map and suggests you don’t always need to make a map. 

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Why Open Data is important to public and private sectors

Jill Miller Zimon is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of OpenNEO, a not for profit organization dedicated to opening data in our region, i.e. making it publicly available, easily accessible, and readily downloadable.  

She spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.    

This snippet of the presentation shows how Open Data can be used to solve real problems (like rat colonies) and why Open Data is important to both the private and public sectors. 

Microsoft Excel and Big Data Session at Data Days CLE

Adam J. Hecktman, Microsoft’s Director of Technology & Civic Innovation for Chicago, presented at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.   

This snippet of the presentation shows some of the Quick Analysis tools (Data Bars in the cells themselves, Sparklines, etc.) which give an easy way to show trends with lots of data. 

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Cleveland Housing Hackathon Session at Data Days CLE

For 24 hours on April 7th to 8th, 2017 CLE Housing Hackathon will bring together more than 200 tech enthusiasts, critical thinkers, civic leaders, and residents from across the county to brainstorm, ideate, and develop innovative solutions around a central question: How can we help Clevelanders in the Housing Choice Voucher program better select well-resourced neighborhoods that meet their needs? 

Here is a snippet from the session where representatives spoke at Data Days CLE, a 3-day event bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.    

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Lead exposure link to kindergarten readiness

Robert L. Fischer, PhD CWRU Research Professor and Program Director, Master of Nonprofit Organizations, Co-Director, Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development has led the Center’s research on Invest in Children, a county-wide early childhood initiative that includes home visiting, children’s health, and childcare components since 2001.

 He spoke at the Data Days Cleveland event about how the house matters in a child’s preparedness for school.

 Data Days CLE was a 3-day event bringing together experts and users in the fields of civic technology and data.  

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