Civic Hacknight #464: Learning to Work with Dark Data
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Topic: The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data
Good policy starts with good data, and although we live in an increasingly data-rich era, the world of dark data is also growing. We know too little about global mortality, which inhibits healthcare interventions; similarly, we struggle to estimate the number of unhoused in our communities, making it difficult to petition for more affordable housing. Solving problems which involve data that is uncollected, unstructured or otherwise obfuscated requires a new toolkit of best practices based on familiar principles of secure data governance. We'll talk about a few of these challenges as a way of illuminating a path through the problem of dark data.
Speaker:
Tim is an operationally-focused technology leader with extensive hands-on experience building software companies, including four successful acquisitions. Strengths include technical product development, real world data architecture, operational security and sustainable governance. Advisor and speaker at technology conferences around the world.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs to ship user management, SSO, SCIM, and other enterprise features in minutes instead of months. Some of the hottest startups in the world are powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.
Start selling to enterprises with a few lines of code.
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin you app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Civic Hacknight #464: Learning to Work with Dark Data
Topic: The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data
Good policy starts with good data, and although we live in an increasingly data-rich era, the world of dark data is also growing. We know too little about global mortality, which inhibits healthcare interventions; similarly, we struggle to estimate the number of unhoused in our communities, making it difficult to petition for more affordable housing. Solving problems which involve data that is uncollected, unstructured or otherwise obfuscated requires a new toolkit of best practices based on familiar principles of secure data governance. We'll talk about a few of these challenges as a way of illuminating a path through the problem of dark data.
Speaker:
Tim is an operationally-focused technology leader with extensive hands-on experience building software companies, including four successful acquisitions. Strengths include technical product development, real world data architecture, operational security and sustainable governance. Advisor and speaker at technology conferences around the world.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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