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Noel Hidalgo

Noel Hidalgo
Engagement Technologies, World Economic Forum

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Noel Hidalgo works at the intersection of politics, community, technology and art. Advocate for free and open government data, open source software, open communities, free culture, dutch utility bicycles and transparent government; he is an established global leader in progressive political and technology communities; Eagle Scout. He is a member of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), a member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020, and on the board of advisors for Digital Democracy, a non-profit in New York City. He is one of three co-organizers of New Yorkʼs only meetup dedicated to open government, the Open New York Forum.

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.