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Jared Williams
Programmer, New York State Senate

Website | @jwillziac | Attendee Directory Profile

Jared is part of the Open Government movement started by the New York State Senate. He began as an intern in February of 2010 and was hired on in August of that year. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from SUNY Albany.

Sessions

11:30am Tuesday, 07/26/2011
Government Legislative Data, The Other Great White Fail Whale & How To Avoid It
Data: Big Data
 Location: B118-119
Tags: mysql, nosql, open_government, lucene
Jared Williams (New York State Senate), Noel Hidalgo (World Economic Forum), Graylin Kim (New York State Senate)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
The story of the development team and what lessons we learned in building Open Legislation - an open government platform. It will detail our transition from a MySQL back end to an application fully powered by Lucene, the data quality and efficiency issues that we’ve had to address, and how we’re now trying to rebuild internal trust after our iterative and initially shaky development process. Read more.