Rebecca Williams rebeccawilliams

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am rebeccawilliams on github.
I am rebeccawilliams (https://keybase.io/rebeccawilliams) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 242C E856 9E7A B790 8841 8F4C B640 A307 96AF 8906

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Tool	Features	Open Source Technology? Documentation?	Deployment
Alavateli	An open-source platform for making public freedom of information requests to public bodies.Built to help citizens request information, and view and comment on other people's requestsAll requests made through Alaveteli, and their responses are published online for everyone to see.Used all over the world to open up governments and other public bodies.	Built with Ruby on Rails 3.x, etc, see the documentation for developers. Learn about the project at www.alaveteli.org. Read Turbo Transparency, a paper about how and why to use Alaveteli for Freedom of Information systems, and a Getting Started guide. The documentation covers installing, [customising

On Self-Respect

Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

I had not been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. This failure could scarcely have been more predictable or less ambiguous (I simply did not have the grades), but I was unnerved by it; I had somehow thought myself a kind of academic Raskolnikov, curiously exempt from the cause-effect relationships that hampered others. Although the situation must have had even then the approximate tragic stature of Scott Fitzgerald's failure to become president of the Princeton Triangle Club, the day that I did not make Phi Beta Kappa nevertheless

The Reader As Artist

By Toni Morrison

The words on the page are only half the story, says Toni Morrison. The rest is what you bring to the party.

Mr. Head awakened to discover that the room was full of moonlight. He sat up and stared at the floor boards—the color of silver—and then at the ticking on his pillow, which might have been brocade, and after a second, he saw half of the moon five feet away in his shaving mirror, paused as if it were waiting for his permission to enter. It rolled forward and cast a dignifying light on everything. The straight chair against the wall looked stiff and attentive as if it were awaiting an order and Mr. Head's trousers, hanging to the back of it, had an almost noble air, like the garment some great man had just flung to his servant….

The above opening to a short story by Flannery O'Connor is, to readers content with grasping information, straightforward enough. It introduces a character, Mr. Head, waking up at night and noticing moonlight. To readers who enjoy

Appendix A: Sample Dataset Metadata

Standard Dataset Fields

The U.S. federal government has created the Project Open Data metadata schema standard to implement the federal open data policy. The Project Open Data schema is based on the international DCAT metadata schema used by open data programs around the world and has been mapped to many standards. The Project Open Data schema must be preseneted as a JSON file to be ingested by Data.gov. This schema is natively available with many open data portal providers including: Azavea, Esri Open Data, NuCivic's DKAN, OpenGov, and Socrata, and is easily added to CKAN sites with an extension or can be generated on an ad hoc basis with these tools.

Field | Label | Definition | Required

year	how many	ordinance or law	resolution	exective order or directive	admin memo, IT policy, etc	city	county	state
2006	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
2009	3	2	0	1	0	2	1	0
2010	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
2011	4	2	1	0	1	1	2	1
2012	7	5	0	2	0	5	1	1
2013	16	7	0	5	4	8	3	5
2014	20	11	1	6	2	14	3	3
2015	8	1	1	3	3	8	0	0
2016	9	2	4	3	0	8	0	1

#LegalHack

Legal Hackers is everywhere.

Over 25 Global Chapters on 4 continents and growing.
Read more at: legalhackers.org & dclegalhackers.org (Sponsor us, start a local chapter)

DC had a legal hacking community before we ever existed.

pre-September 2013

Govtrack.us

Shortlink: http://bit.ly/1W9qfDo

Hyperlocal Financial Transparency

Mint
YNAB

Benefits of Financial Transparency

Two years later: How are agencies performing on M-13-13 Open Data Policy-Managing Information as an Asset?

Agenda

12:05 - Welcome
12:10 - Hello Open Data Policy / CAP Goal / IDC
12:15 - How are CFO-Act agencies doing?
12:20 - Project Open Data Dashboard 101
12:35 - How to help move agencies forward with M-13-13 to become more data driven
12:40 - Tips on helpful data that is currently being reported by agencies

	"Accepted Symbol","Synonym Symbol","Scientific Name","PLANTS Floristic Area","State and Province","Native Status","Flower Conspicuous","Fruit Conspicuous","Height, Mature (feet)","Shape and Orientation","Toxicity"
	"ACAM","","Acorus americanus","NA (L48, AK, CAN)","USA (AK, CT, DC, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, VA, VT, WA, WI), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK)","L48 (N), AK (N), CAN (N)","No","No","3.9","Erect","None"
	"ADPE","","Adiantum pedatum","NA (L48, CAN)","USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV), CAN (NB, NS, ON, QC)","L48 (N), CAN (N)","No","No","1.3","Semi-Erect","None"
	"AGGR2","","Agrimonia gryposepala","NA (L48, CAN)","USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, MB, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC)","L48 (N), CAN (N)","