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DruidSmith / gist:52d0d6482e7484421902626aaf7f9a70
Last active March 24, 2017 20:24
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DruidSmith / IT Improvement.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:23
How to improve IT

Thoughts on improving Agency IT Efforts

Applications Development and IDEs

EPA should seek to empower EPA staff to do more in-house development, as opposed to relying as extensively on contractors as we currently do. Even for routine applications, EPA staff often end up turning to contractors for a variety of reasons, for example because most EPA staff do not have access to development IDEs, tools and development platforms. Empowering EPA staff to write more code and providing access to the tools and environment would open many options in terms of rapid application development, prototyping, technology evaluations, application maintenance and other activities that could be done in-house, which could in turn yield substantial savings that could be directed toward more robust development efforts and technology acquisitions.

Currently a lot of development efforts happen at contractors' offices, on development environments that are controlled by contractors and which are only accessible to contractors.

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Last active December 28, 2015 06:59
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DruidSmith / datagardening.md
Last active December 27, 2015 12:49
Random thoughts: Data gardening...

Random thoughts: Data gardening...

Since moving to DC three years ago, I've come to miss gardening. But, that said, it's been interesting how I've been pushing the garden analogy on to some of my work. Been doing a lot of data stewardship lately, which in many ways is similar. Tending data, weeding the bad data, growing it, and then harvesting its bounty on a regular basis, to include sharing some of it with neighbors and occasionally showing off some of the gems from the latest crop. And, instead of garden stakes to remind me which seeds I planted where, I have metadata. There can be something oddly therapeutic about curating data as well... So I guess now it's a data garden that I tend instead. Granted, I can't make salads or stir fries like I used to but it's not bad.

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DruidSmith / GovDataTransparencyChallenges.md
Last active September 14, 2017 12:08
Government Data Transparency Challenges and Perspectives

Challenges in Government Data

These are some follow-on thoughts to a session titled "Getting Value out of Government Data", with perspectives from a data wrangler who's now a recently minted govie coming in from the private sector

This is not intended as a full recap of all presentations, but instead just highlight some items of particular interest to me relating to government data transparency and usability:

  • Josh Hurd @nonprofmetrics gave a presentation on mining government data for use in analysis of non-profits and discussed some of the challenges of using the data, for example that IRS provides scanned TIFF image, which need to be processed into being machine-readable, and which then still contain many errors and other data quality problems. They actually have been looking at committing a full time hire just to deal with the data quality issues

  • Hudson Hollister @hudsonhollister gave a presentation on data transpa

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Last active December 14, 2015 23:19
RasPi Projects
Projects
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/pi-day-raspberry-pi-projects/
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DruidSmith / gist:5162020
Created March 14, 2013 14:58
State Environmental Data
NYS DEC GeoPortal
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