Learning at the City of Portland 2023 open data day - presentations

Open Data Day presentations

Open data is a way in which governments can become more transparent and trustworthy. For a third year, the City of Portland celebrated open data day by sharing how data plays a role in decision making. The open data team invited experts to share ideas, lessons, and projects to Portlanders.

This year’s celebration of open data day happened in March with two main events: public presentations on March 22 and an Open Data Disco Tech on March 25. The open data disco tech was a hands-on event inviting the public to work using the City’s open datasets.

This blog post shows the presentations done on March 22, 2023. The full program and the following table describe recordings from these presentations:


Privacy and open data refresher (15:30 min)

Hector Dominguez. City of Portland, open data and privacy coordinator. Smart City PDX program.

In this short presentation, Hector will review what open data is and go over the City of Portland’s privacy and information protection principles.

https://youtu.be/3wyJ6c7QtDE


Data Justice in the State of Oregon (24:54 min)

Meies-Amor Matz, MPH. Equity in Data & Analytics Consultant. Enterprise Information Services. State of Oregon. Data Governance and Transparency.

This presentation will discuss what data justice is and what efforts the State of Oregon is doing to implement it.        

https://youtu.be/LBLWyi2uyTc


Data Literacy strategies in the State of Oregon (13:10 min)

Denise Whitney Dahlke. Chief Data Steward. Data Solutions Office. Oregon Department of Transportation

This presentation will share information about the data literacy framework that the State of Oregon is developing.

https://youtu.be/ZhONlj6cSIQ


The Data Labs playbook and State Data Offices (8:16 min)

Vinith Annam. State Chief Data Officers Network Program Manager

Isaac Yoder. Data Labs Program Manager for social safety net projects

Jennifer Puma. Data Labs Program Manager.

State Chief Data Officers Network. Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation. Georgetown University

In this presentation, the Data Labs team will explain the benefits of how data offices in States are using the Data Labs playbook. What this playbook is about and what benefits its use can bring to data projects.    

https://youtu.be/KAsiGaZbr3s


Portland Bureau of Transportation data. (15:23 min)

Lauren Spear. Senior Business Management Analyst. Portland Bureau of Transportation.

This conversation will share how the Bureau of Transportation collects, uses, and manages data.           

https://youtu.be/E1qJNSFuHZI


Data Governance in Portland. (16:41 min)

Christine Kendrick, Smart City PDX Data Services Manager

Vishal Bakshi, Rescue Plan Data Analyst     

This presentation will show how the City of Portland is implementing data governance.

https://youtu.be/PQBrYEpq6Eo


State of the art with data analytics. (19:43 min)

Jameson Watts, Willamette University Data Science Program

This conversation will describe how modern data science tools and techniques can offer benefits to government data.

https://youtu.be/Fdc5TB4TQBc


From Data to Digital Infrastructure: Spatial Data & Mobility panel. (1 hr.)   

Scott Frazier. Project Manager, Operations Data, Cal-ITP

Ryan Mahoney. Director of Engineering for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA)

Amenity Applewhite. Head of Product, Austin, TX Transportation Department

Ben Cerveny. President, Foundation for Public Code

Victoria Dower. VP, Client Services, Ellis & Associates, a Lacuna Technologies co.

Moderator: Matthew Claudel. Founder of Field States

Panel session focused on mobility data and the importance of public code. Conversation moderated by the Foundation for Public Code (FPC). Key ideas: interoperable data frameworks, shared tooling and local implementations, data on a gradient from open to closed, integrating mobility (from curbs to district planning).

https://youtu.be/CItKadgLuHE


video list and contact

See the full list of presentations here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrETCbg3gshSTN-xf5MHfGf-Pmb7UZk5

And, send us your comments and requests to smartcitypdx@portlandoregon.gov for future events.