Hailing a Taxi down Cockup Boulevard.

Update: Sept 2014: Someone did some further analysis.

ny-taxiIt took 10 hours, from the release of ineffectively anonymised driver numbers, to extract the driver IDs of 173 million taxi journeys in New York City. That data, released by the NYC Taxi authority has been also been used to do useful things, but what else will be done with the rest of the fields? What else could have been done?

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posted: 26 Jun 2014

Comments on the feedback on the suggestion of a Parliamentary Digital Service

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Parliament has released the first set of feedback it had received on the Parliamentary Digital Service. While Parliament pulled out important or repeated feedback, backing up various points with anecdote, it didn’t try to separate it into themes.

I was pleasantly surprised that they sit easily into just two themes:
“Delivery” and “Parliamentary Process”.

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posted: 30 May 2014