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Smart cities sounds magical, but civic tech gets it done

August 16, 2019 by Ted Cuzzillo

Louisville, Kentucky’s chief technology manager works with civic-tech innovators every day. That sounds to me like a good way to make a city smart. But that’s only the beginning.

First comes openness, and not just open data. Ed Blayney welcomes the innovators. He stands in stark contrast with the cold eyes and stiff silos some of them face when they come to offer a city helpful, usually free new technology.

It’s not easy for city administrators, says Blayney. “They have their nose down in their day-to-day work and you’re asking them to change the way they do their jobs. It’s not easy changing people’s minds.”… Read the rest “Smart cities sounds magical, but civic tech gets it done”

Filed Under: city tech Tagged With: Cities, civic tech, culture, Ed Blayney, IT, Kentucky, Louisville, predictions, smart cities, U.S. Army Leave a Comment

Men in the middle see both sides of the IT-business split

September 12, 2013 by Ted Cuzzillo

The in-between people see it all from their position between IT and business users. Wayne Eckerson calls them the “purple people” because they’re half IT red and half business blue, and others might call them just con artists. By either name, they see more than the purebreds.

Today at the sixth Tableau Customer Conference, just upwind from Washington D.C, I ran into two men in such roles.

They appear in one set of clothes when facing the information technology people. Then in an instant they turn around to appear in other clothes to business people. They win the confidence of both.

Filed Under: analysis & methods Tagged With: access, book, business users, culture, IT, Tableau, Ted Corbett, Wayne Eckerson Leave a Comment

Why IT says “no!”

August 10, 2012 by Ted Cuzzillo

Many data repositories are fragile, held together with shaky, ad libbed fixes, observes a busy consultant. Free access for data analysts scares the hell out of administrators.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: data access, data analysts, IT, Sparks 1 Comment

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Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

The data-shy among us have two friends in the software business. One a few years old and one new this year. Nashville, Tennessee-based Juice Analytics … [Read More...] about Two recent “storytelling” tools for public audiences Toucan spoonfeeds data’s insight while Juicebox cultivates data skills

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