Empowering Location

Analytics and Business

Intelligence

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

The U.S. Census Bureau is the Leading Source of Open Data

About our Nation’s People, Places and Economy

Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and

Referencing System The Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic

Encoding and Referencing System is an integrated IT system that includes

A processing environment (hardware and software)

Address and spatial data

The processes to update, maintain, and create products with address and spatial data

Characteristics of spatial data in the MAF/TIGER System:

Spatial features, including all streets and hydrography (rivers and water bodies)

Boundaries, names, and numeric codes of geographic areas

Legal, statistical, and administrative areas

Yesterday –

A past guided by innovation

5

Data Collection

Census enumerators

Mail-in surveys

Hand-held devices

Data Tabulation

Hollerith machine

Data processing

Electronic Tabulator

Optical Sensing

Device (FOSDIC)

1790 2010

Today –

Stimulating the economy

through tool development

Census Business Builder

Guiding Principles

Easy to use

Customer focused

Census data and more

Leverage existing Census investments and current technologies

Free

A Change in Customer Focus

Serving our customers

“Power Users” vs Others

Underserved customers

Small businesses and entrepreneurs

Chambers of Commerce

Ongoing tool changes

HEALTH

SAFETY

JOBS

ENERGY TRANSPORTATION HOUSING

ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION

Every City and Community is Part of a National Data Network

Open Data is a Renewable

National Resource. “

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CitySDK: Government-wide Platform that fosters interaction among data

consumers and producers

Incorporate Open Data from Federal Agencies Supports datasets from the US Census Bureau, USDA, HUD, FEMA, and Department

of Energy Additional federal partners are invited to create their own CitySDK module by

following the step-by-step guide.

Connect to Local Open Data Portals Commonly used data portals such as CKAN, Socrata, and ESRI ArcGIS are accessible

through the CitySDK. For example, the ArcGIS Module for CitySDK allows connectivity to 30K+ local

datasets.

Community Engagement Cities can use the CitySDK to host thematic developer events. An event playbook

created with Waffle.io and Code for America shows how to use an Agile design sprint approach.

A recent example was an event called “Hack the Last Mile” led by the Department of Energy, Deloitte, and Uber which featured the CitySDK.

Run CitySDK on IBM Bluemix CitySDK front-end apps can currently be built to run on the IBM Bluemix platform. Research is underway to run CitySDK as a back-end service and connect to Watson.

Why CitySDK is a “Platform” for both Internal and External Innovation

Provides real-time actionable information

Provides contextual data

SENSOR DATA

OPEN DATA

POPULATION

ECONOMY

WEATHER

TRANSPORTATION

ENERGY

SAFETY

Smart Cities

Services

Open Data • Cities provide the context

for value creation, utilizing real-time and contextual data

Ecosystem Interaction • CitySDK fosters

interaction among data consumers and producers through an open-source approach

Academia

Innovation Hubs

Industry

Open Gov

City

Open Data

Ecosystem Participants

Opportunity.Census.gov

Tomorrow –

What does the future hold?