Still trying to think of 3 words that describe me for my chi hack night introduction. One of them must be bureaucrat. Innovative bureaucrat? Is that a thing?
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17 Oct 2025
If you're struggling with the 6 7 thing, this might help: if Beckett had written Waiting for Godot for Gen Alpha, it might’ve just been called 6 7. You're welcome.
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2 Jan 2025
Happy New Year! I've never embraced the format of Twitter or X. However, I did create a bsky.app account. I'm posting it here because sometimes I forget the name of the site, and I am deleting some old Twitter posts.
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28 Jun 2023
Congrats to my colleagues for receiving gold certification from @BloombergDotOrg's @WhatWorksCities program. This award reflects Chicago's exceptional use of data in running the city. I'm proud of what you've done to move Chicago forward. chicago.gov/city/en/depts/ma…
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25 May 2022
Anyone else remember the days of @cta A/B trains? The blue line delays reminded me of how efficient the express trains can be. I made Jefferson Park to Lake in under 15 minutes. (Stopping at Logan and Damen too).
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17 Mar 2022
I'm going to have to remember to try this when we are in the throes of renaming branches. Thanks @allison_horst for pinning / tweeting
Geneorama retweeted
16 Dec 2021
Yesterday @chicagosmayor announced that Chicago has been recognized by @BloombergDotOrg as one of 10 new cities to have achieved @WhatWorksCities certification.
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26 Oct 2021
Great gov data summit from @CivisAnalytics. Love so many of the comments from @dpatil, especially that data scientists should be trained in ethics. This is absolutely true. #DataForGov
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21 Jul 2021
1 for this quote: "the speed of curiosity". How many times have I had to defend why performance is so critically important? Anyway, I'm enjoying this post from @omnisci about digging into the census undercount by comparing to commercial data. omnisci.com/blog/making-sure…
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27 Oct 2020
At least one Democrat believes in taking a position
27 Oct 2020
Expand the court.
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7 Jul 2020
We're launching a citywide challenge today to see which ward can deliver the biggest increase in Census responses over the next 10 days. The winning ward gets bragging rights and an ice cream delivery for their young people. #GetCounted today at my2020census.gov.
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2 Jun 2020
Security services that refuse to disclose their full affiliation are not a typical feature of liberal democracies.
2 Jun 2020
Asked who they’re with, these guys say only that they’re with “The Department of Justice.”
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19 May 2020
Meet the real hero of my quarantine. I love being stuck at home. I love it more with this label maker and set of sparkle and non sparkle tapes.
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We left a playbook. He ignored it.
We created an office to prepare for pandemics. He gutted it.
We had CDC officials in China to detect and contain outbreaks. He pulled them out.
Trump can try and shift blame all he wants, but the fact is his actions left us unprepared.
30 Apr 2020
Trump is blaming Obama, who left office in 2017, for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist until 2019. Yes, really. vox.com/2020/4/30/21243117/t…
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19 Mar 2020
The most people you’ll see in one place at the same time today. Fire drill (hopefully) at work.
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Geneorama retweeted
17 Mar 2020
This is an interesting way to communicate the relative mortality risk presented by #covid19, based on current mortality estimates. #coronavirus #dataviz
Inspired by a similar xkcd comic about radiation: xkcd.com/radiation/
Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Geneorama retweeted
8 Mar 2020
Once a vaccine for coronavirus is developed, it should be free.
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