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"Socrata in the Media"
Source: Seattle Business Magazine | Author: Sally James | Date: September 2011 Issue Startup wrestles complicated spreadsheets into consumer-friendly dashboards. “Tucked away in a Pioneer Square building, some of the human machinery of the U.S. government’s transparency program hums along, sharing a treasure trove of data with consumers. Providing this service is Socrata Inc., a [...]
Continue Reading →Source: The East African | Author: Christine Mungai | Date: July 10th, 2011 “Kenya has launched an Open Data portal, the first African country to make government data accessible to the ordinary citizen on an Internet-based platform. The portal will allow users to compare information at national, province and county levels. [...]
Continue Reading →Source: The Contracting Post | Author: Jon Levin | Date: Feb 28th, 2011 “Socrata offers a variety of potentially impactful technology solutions for governments and organizations that want to share their data in a more accessible way. For one – they bring data storage and sharing to the cloud – something that could [...]
Continue Reading →Source: Sunlight Foundation | Author: Scott Stadium | Date: Feb 24th, 2011 “Socrata offers a similar service with the same goals of making data easy to find, easy to use and easy to explore. The most obvious difference between the two services is the level of thought and detail that has gone into making Socrata [...]
Continue Reading →Source: GeekWire | Author: John Cook | Date: May 17th, 2011 “At the Technology Alliance annual luncheon in Seattle earlier this month, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra explained how the open government movement was “collapsing a lot of the complexity” that had previously made federal, state and local collaboration difficult. In particular, Chopra called out the efforts [...]
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…The post takes issue with the White House’s decision to release only names that have been inquired about publicly and the fact that the original data set is less functional than this version on the social data site Socrata.
Continue Reading →Source: Government Technology
Now is not the time to take on large capital expenditures. Yet with the federal government and an ever growing number of states, counties and cities focused on making more and more data available online, the challenge is daunting for CIOs. The federal government alone has more than 24,000 Web sites, many of which host data.
Continue Reading →Source: Wall Street Journal
Small businesses were natural early adopters of the company’s online spreadsheets, which allows people to visualize, filter, comment on and search large datasets within a Web site. But soon, a new, deep-pocketed customer appeared that encouraged Socrata to shift gears: the federal government.
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