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Open Data updates, infrastructure upgrades, and potential AI integration
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Council Member Gale Brewer inquires about updates to the Open Data initiative, including infrastructure upgrades and potential AI integration. Matthew C. Fraser provides information on current efforts and agrees to follow up with more details.
- Open Data falls under the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI)
- Martha Norick serves as the Chief Analytics Officer
- OTI is currently upgrading the backend infrastructure, which is over a decade old
- There is interest from the private sector in integrating AI with Open Data
- Fraser commits to providing a detailed update on Open Data efforts to the council
Gale Brewer
1:09:51
Okay.
1:09:52
Open date, this is my last Open date is my baby.
1:09:54
That's my bill.
1:09:55
Yep.
1:09:55
Okay.
1:09:56
It it needs a lot of updating.
1:09:58
Who's who's in charge of, you know, it I guess OpenData two point o, three point o, or whatever.
1:10:04
Yep.
1:10:04
Is is that you?
1:10:06
Is that operations?
1:10:07
Who's who's supposed to be doing that?
Matthew C. Fraser
1:10:09
So data falls under the office of tech and innovation and under OTI, we have the city's chief analytics the chief analytics officer, which is Martha Norick.
1:10:19
Or who is Martha Norick?
1:10:20
And in addition to the chief analytics officer, we have an application development team that's responsible for building out the infrastructure that supports open data.
1:10:29
We're currently in a space where we're going through a back end upgrade.
1:10:33
A lot of the infrastructure supporting this is over a decade old.
1:10:36
Right?
Joseph Bach
1:10:37
So we're
Matthew C. Fraser
1:10:37
in the space of upgrading and renovating that data as we speak.
1:10:41
So my office is currently working on that.
Gale Brewer
1:10:42
Can you update us about what it is that you're doing at some point?
Matthew C. Fraser
1:10:46
Yeah.
1:10:46
So I I would gladly put together with the list of follow ups that we have for the the chair.
1:10:52
Okay.
1:10:53
We'll gladly provide that back to council.
Gale Brewer
1:10:55
Okay.
1:10:55
And then there's a hope from, I guess, some of this private business community that it could be somehow integrated with AI efforts.
1:11:03
In other words, there would be ways that this data could or AI could help this data be sort of what council member Baccia was talking about.
1:11:10
Just anyway, just I was at a meeting about that this morning.
1:11:13
So I would love an update on what you're doing on open data.
Matthew C. Fraser
1:11:17
Roger that.
Gale Brewer
1:11:18
Thank you.
1:11:18
Thank you, madam chair.