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My name is Matt MacDonald, I moved to Watertown, MA in the spring of 2010. I blog here, muck with municipal data at http://www.nearbyfyi.com and work at http://www.prx.orgI’m interested in learning more about how our world works. I love data, I write software and tools to help explain and visualize that data and I enjoy sharing what I find with others.
If a picture can speak a 1,000 words data visualization can speak 1,000,000. I think visualizations of data can help explain very complex topics and data does not lie.
Category Archives: Hacks
He Said, She Said – Extracting data from 5 years of Watertown Town Council meetings
Hi, I think I found a way to to raise the visibility of some pretty boring civic data and present it to the public in a more useful manner. Like most cities and town Watertown, MA keeps detailed meeting minutes … Continue reading
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Mapping the location of building permit submissions in Watertown, MA
Hi, I’m trying weekly to identify and hack on data that is published in the Watertown, MA document center in order to provide it in a manner that people might find more useful than a PDF, Excel or PowerPoint presentation. … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Hacks, Municipalities, OpenGov, Software, Watertown
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