Open Data Day 2020 - Louisville

International Open Data Day is here again, and Louisville is hosting an event for the 10th year in a row!

Come celebrate all things 'open data', and learn what's available and how to make use of this free, public information in your community, projects, business, organizations, news stories, and research projects.

Agenda

8:30am - Doors open and coffee and light breakfast (courtesy Microsoft)

9:00 - Welcome and Intros

• Michael Schnuerle - Louisville Metro's Data Officer - Civic Innovation and Technology
• Ben Reno-Weber - Director - Microsoft AI Hub
• Grace Simrall - Louisville's Chief of Civic Innovation and Technology
• Rob Wiederstien - KY Open Data website bill
• Matt Dobson - towards a Kentucky Digital Service
• Code for Kentuckiana - Overview and projects
• Larry Horn - Louisville LEAP - Entrepreneurship

9:30 - Louisville's Open Data

• City website
• LOJIC website
• Louisville Data Commons
• New open datasets overview (see below for list)
• Form project groups around datasets/initiatives

10 :00 - Group project work starts

10:30 - Breakout Session - Power BI training - Rebecca Hollenbach from Louisville Metro's Data Academy

12:00pm - Lunch arrives (courtesy Microsoft)

1:00 - Breakout Session - Workshop on House Bill 88 - an open data website for Kentucky w/ KY CDO Krishna Mupparaju and bill author Rob Wiederstien

4:00 - Presentations from groups on progress and roadblocks

4:30 - Event ends

New Featured Open Datasets

1. Dockless Vehicles
2. Short Term Rentals Map - Open Data
3. PARC - meter locations - Open Data (plus citations)
4. Fire Incidents and Property Damage
5. Paving Projects
6. Potential new datasets from our Open Data Census
7. See our other new datasets in our Open Data Annual Report

How to Prepare and What To Bring

1. Take a look at Louisville's Open Data Website for datasets
2. Ideas for projects around open data
3. Bring your laptop + charger + mouse
4. Install Power BI Desktop on Windows if you want to do the training

Sponsors, Organizers, Speakers

Louisville Metro's Office of Civic Innovation and Technology

Louisville's Open Data Program

Story Louisville

Microsoft

Code for Kentuckiana

Kentucky's Commonwealth Office of Technology

Louisville Data Commons

Louisville LEAP

Open Knowledge Foundation

Open Data Day

Future of Work Initiative

Transportation

Bike, ebike, scoot, bus, walk, carpool or drive your way to Story on Main.

If you need car storage, there is a free lot to the side or behind the building.