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    A “geyser” erupts on Lawrence Avenue near Ravenswood this morning in Chicago.

    Posted on Thursday, April 18th 2013

    Tags Chicago Flooding

    New data set alert: 9 million new rows worth of traffic data released by Chicago

    wbezdata:

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    On Tuesday night, citizen hackers, urban planners, data scientists and others funneled into a crowded conference room to talk about data.

    They might have also piled in to hear Rayid Ghani, the former chief data scientist of the Obama 2012 campaign, explain how to use social networks and analytics to get the broadest reach for your organization. But also: data!

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    Posted on Wednesday, March 27th 2013

    Tags data opendata Chicago transportation traffic

    Reblogged from Chicago Public Data

    chicagobusiness:

    Chicago’s Argo Tea has big decisions brewing. The company, founded by Armenian immigrant Arsen Avakian a decade ago in Lincoln Park, is mulling opening more cafes around the world, but the bulk of its growth is coming from the bottled-drinks business it launched two years ago. Argo will release more bottled flavors this year and for the first time will include dairy ingredients, such as a “teapuccino.”

    Despite its ridiculous name, we’d probably drink ‘teapuccino’. How about you?

    Posted on Tuesday, March 12th 2013

    Tags argo tea chicago

    Reblogged from Crain's Chicago Business on Tumblr