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This is interesting. Maybe blog on this and some media may pick it up? Getting it into the local Chicago media would get some attention from officials.
by dpweb 10y ago
This is interesting. Maybe blog on this and some media may pick it up? Getting it into the local Chicago media would get some attention from officials.
- bpchaps 10y agoI'm going to take a long break from this project, I think. Working with the data has been fun and all and has probably been the biggest learning experience of anything I've ever done... but doing it all on my own has been pretty stressful, especially after trying really, really hard to get some attention through conventional ways. It's really disheartening to have next to zero traction from the city and the local "open gov hack" groups. Many journalists and tech folks who want to help out have their own goals, but I've been finding more and more that their goals are (at the risk of the obvious) largely attention seeking, so "unsexy" stories don't get much attention. It's a very strange dynamic where so many folk are interested in visualization of data over actually solving problems. I really don't get it. Taking a break from this sort of work will be nice.
- dredmorbius 10y agoSex the story up, and get some graphics. Having a random Internet guy make a Sankey diagram to show G+ user numbers helped the hell in promoting that story. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq If you're on Reddit, drop a request at /r/MKaTS