| ### Keybase proof | |
| I hereby claim: | |
| * I am driki on github. | |
| * I am mattmacdonald (https://keybase.io/mattmacdonald) on keybase. | |
| * I have a public key whose fingerprint is BDD5 D099 131C 44B4 B8F6 C011 F4B5 B327 983E 3CCF | |
| To claim this, I am signing this object: |
| { | |
| "states" : [ | |
| {"AL":"Alabama"}, | |
| {"AK":"Alaska"}, | |
| {"AZ":"Arizona"}, | |
| {"AR":"Arkansas"}, | |
| {"CA":"California"}, | |
| {"CO":"Colorado"}, | |
| {"CT":"Connecticut"}, | |
| {"DE":"Delaware"}, |
| <div class='tree-map plans' data-table='[["Title","Model","Count","Weight"],["Model","",0,0],["ASUS NEXUS 7","Model",275,0],["CASIO C771","Model",108,0],["HTC ADR6300","Model",99,0],["HTC ADR6350","Model",94,0],["HTC ADR6400L","Model",130,0],["HTC ADR6425LVW","Model",89,0],["HTC PC36100","Model",154,0],["HTC T-MOBILE G2","Model",410,0],["LGE LG-VM696","Model",39,0],["MOTOROLA DROID BIONIC","Model",501,0],["MOTOROLA DROID RAZR","Model",1483,0],["MOTOROLA DROID X2","Model",498,0],["MOTOROLA DROID2","Model",281,0],["MOTOROLA DROID2 GLOBAL","Model",162,0],["MOTOROLA DROID3","Model",238,0],["MOTOROLA DROID4","Model",365,0],["MOTOROLA DROIDX","Model",957,0],["MOTOROLA MB855","Model",147,0],["MOTOROLA MB860","Model",242,0],["SAMSUNG GALAXY NEXUS","Model",424,0],["SAMSUNG GT-I9100","Model",85,0],["SAMSUNG GT-I9300","Model",129,0],["SAMSUNG SAMSUNG-SGH-I747","Model",318,0],["SAMSUNG SCH-I500","Model",58,0],["SAMSUNG SCH-I535","Model",545,0],["SAMSUNG SGH-T989","Model",178,0],["SAMSUNG SGH-T999","Model",178,0],["SAMSUN |
Legislative/Committees
Meeting minutes with attachments
Agenda Items with attachments
Town/City Manager and their secretary or assistants
Citizen complaints about almost anything someone has an issue with.
Studies and surveys about services the community provides.
Newsletters and other mass citizen communications
#Knight News Challenge - Open Government ###Hi, there.
NearbyFYI submitted a proposal to the Knight Foundation News Challenge, we're making it easier for small and mid-sized cities to share information online. It's a website like Yelp, but for cities and towns instead of restaurants.
Small cities and towns lack tools and incentive to publish structured data, so we collect what they already publish, unstructured text and analyze it to create structured data. We wanted to use the same tools and techniques that we use everyday to learn more about the themes and topics in the Open Government News Challenge. It was also a pretty neat way to browse the more than 800 amazing entries.
We've used a technique called latent Dirichlet allocation to automatically cluster and group the challenge entries. What themes emerge, what clusters of entries show up and how are they grouping? The groupi
| Topic 00 4060.638381492015 | |
| number 131.84254459571682 | |
| dwelling 130.0942066586498 | |
| name 107.50313007741401 | |
| state 107.23074287437205 | |
| unit 94.60188337501059 | |
| address 83.35383631029445 | |
| code 75.011551118471 | |
| yes 68.04857715759431 | |
| owner 65.04524048536197 |
| 08:51:20 worker.1 | 2012-12-31T13:51:20Z 11451 TID-ovw3jav00 ExtractTextFromDocument JID-21e38454b9696092b4b8313c WARN: !!! Failure ExtractTextFromDocument(56410) | |
| 08:51:20 worker.1 | 2012-12-31T13:51:20Z 11451 TID-ovw3jav00 ExtractTextFromDocument JID-21e38454b9696092b4b8313c DEBUG: Failure! Retry 5 in 742 seconds | |
| 08:51:20 worker.1 | 2012-12-31T13:51:20Z 11451 TID-ovw3jav00 ExtractTextFromDocument JID-21e38454b9696092b4b8313c INFO: fail: 42.405 sec | |
| 08:51:20 worker.1 | 2012-12-31T13:51:20Z 11451 TID-ovw3jav00 WARN: {"retry"=>10, "queue"=>"high", "class"=>"ExtractTextFromDocument", "args"=>[56410, "Workflow.end_extract_text(arg)"], "jid"=>"21e38454b9696092b4b8313c", "error_message"=>"!!! Caught exception while executing ExtractTextFromDocument(56410): Text extraction service error: (503)", "error_class"=>"StandardError", "failed_at"=>"2012-12-30T20:28:13Z", "retry_count"=>5, "retried_at"=>2012-12-31 13:51:20 UTC} | |
| 08:51:20 worker.1 | 2012-12-31T13:51:20Z 11451 TID-ovw3jav00 WARN: !!! Caught exception while execu |
| require 'net/http' | |
| # Memory continues to climb. | |
| idx = 0 | |
| loop do | |
| begin | |
| # Our sample website | |
| url = "http://localhost:2000" | |
| resp = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)) | |
| puts "run loop: #{idx}" |
| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'tire' | |
| Tire.configure { logger 'elasticsearch.log', :level => 'debug' } | |
| class Municipality | |
| include Tire::Model::Persistence | |
| include Tire::Model::Search | |
| include Tire::Model::Callbacks |
| 19:40John B.: Hello Matt! How may I help you? | |
| 19:41Matt M.: Hi John. I need to lower my bill. Comcast internet is much cheaper. Thinking of switching | |
| 19:43Matt M.: They are offering me $34.99/mo my latest RCN bill is $49.99 | |
| 19:43John B.: Let me see what I can do, sir. I'd be happy to help you. May I please have your address and phone number? | |
| 19:44Matt M.: Sure. XXXXXXXXX, MA XXXXX and my phone number is XXX-XXX-XXXX. | |
| 19:45John B.: Thank you sir. One moment please while I research what I can do. | |
| 19:45Matt M.: Great thanks. | |
| 19:48John B.: I tried to put you in the $34.99 plan, however the system knows your an active customer and denies me. | |
| 19:49John B.: But we do have another option! | |
| 19:49Matt M.: OK. What are you thinking? |