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White-hat hackers ride into town

May 30, 2019 by Ted Cuzzillo

Bob Bennett, a former chief innovation officer for Kansas City, Missouri illustrated a common problem for cities undertaking smart-city projects — and how white-hat hackers can be a priceless complement.

They got off to a fast start. Bennett says it took just three days to develop the idea to develop its smart city and street car corridor concurrently. It took a little longer to develop the technical requirements, about three months. Then came the agreements with Sprint and Cisco for data usage, data collection, where to share the data, and who to share it with. That took nine months.

That’s a common story among people involved with “smart city” projects.… Read the rest “White-hat hackers ride into town”

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Take data from ethereal to grounded

May 24, 2019 by Ted Cuzzillo

A few days ago, I told former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink why I found “smart cities” more interesting than the data industry’s tired old slogan “data driven.” Cities are complex and layered. Analytics has results, good or bad. Data becomes tangible, satisfying.

She got it. “‘Data driven’ is ethereal,” she said. “Smart cities are grounded.”

If you to talk about the data industry’s mythical “data driven” for very long, your conversation probably has an eery resemblance to those you had 10 years ago. Today we have more volume, more complexity, and nice things like artificial intelligence. But the old themes repeat over and over.… Read the rest “Take data from ethereal to grounded”

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Users’ transit data for a money-back guarantee

May 1, 2019 by Ted Cuzzillo

Transportation expert Bob McQueen, consultant to Teradata and other vendors, suggests that transit operators offer riders a deal: their data for use of their location, speed, and other details. But at first it’s only for an in-house experiment. First question: How much would it cost the transit operator?

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