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From YouTube: Laura Meixell - Mayor Peduto's Reddit AMA July 17, 2014
Description
Mayor Peduto held his first ever Reddit AMA as Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh. Staff and Department heads shared their thoughts with us in between answer questions from City residents. In this clip, Laura Meixell, Analytics and Strategy Manager talks about why data is important to the City.
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Well,
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
in
all
governments
collects
all
kinds
of
data
in
the
course
of
our
work.
A
lot
of
that
data
is
interesting
and
useful
for
citizens
and
for
community
groups,
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
can
share
that
information
in
a
way
that
is
really
sort
of
easily
implemented
in
projects
across
our
communities
and
that.
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What's
cool
about
open
data
projects
is
that
you
make
this
data
available
to
anybody
to
the
fifteen-year-old
kid
who's
got
a
knack
for
working
with
databases.
All
the
way
up
to
you
know
startups
in
the
city
like
civic
science
who,
for
a
living
aggregate
data,
makes
sense
of
it
and
then
sell
that
data
to
people
that
are
interested
in
the
trends.
So
it's
really
in
a
great
position.
It's
a
brand
new
position
to
write.
Yes-
and
you
have
come
here
just
to
do
that.
That's.
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Now
you've
come
here
because
because.
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Don't
know
but
I
feel
like
I
feel
like
he
would
have
a
good
answer
for
that
question,
especially
if
I
think,
if
I
got
him,
maybe
after
a
drink.
Well,.
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I
will
definitely
do
hey
thanks
for
hopping
on
thanks
for
telling
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
sort
of
the
big
important
reason
why
we
need
data,
and
why
so
many
people
aren't
you.
This
is
a
huge
deal
right,
like
CMU
pit,
the
entrepreneurial
community.
Technically
they
are
eating
this
up.
This
idea
that
they
have
this
data,
it's
really
about
you.