Tag: data standards
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New York City Shouldn’t Regulate Ride-Hailing Apps – It Should Compete With Them
This article was originally published on Gotham Gazette on November 30, 2018 Smartphones are transforming transit in cities all over the world, and city governments are struggling to figure out how to best manage the change. If the world was looking to New York City’s recently enacted legislation affecting for-hire vehicle companies, then there will be disappointment…
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Introducing Data Models for Human(itarian) Services
This was originally posted at Sarapis Immediately after a disaster, information managers collect information about who is doing what, where, and turn it into “3W Reports.” While some groups have custom software for collecting this information, the most popular software tool for this work is the spreadsheet. Indeed, the spreadsheet is still the “lingua franca”…
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Creating a Shared Data Model with a Spreadsheet
Over the last year, a number of clients have tasked me with bringing datasets from many different sources together. It seems many people and groups want to work more closely with their peers to not only share and merge data resources, but to also work with them to arrive at a “shared data model” that they can…