Video: My "Open Data for Developers" session from #CapitolCamp

Last Friday, the NY Senate CIO hosted the first ever Capitol Camp in Albany.

Along with Remy DeCausemaker, I led a session on “Open Data for Developers”, discussing the Why?/What?/How?’s of releasing government data in open formats with open tools. Remy demonstrated the scrubbers and scrapers that his organization Civx.us has developed.

Here’s the video…

You can view the complete session notes here along with notes and information on the rest of the event. There are also uncut videos of the rest of the sessions on the NY Senate Uncut YouTube Channel.

links for 2009-06-04

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links for 2009-05-25

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