Aidan Feldman afeld

Dear reader-

You are most likely reading this message becase you clicked through on a discussion thread where everything that needs to be said has been said, support for the proposal has clearly been established, and the conversation has devolved into people simply commenting with variations of "+1". Please recognize that this isn't moving the proposal forward, and is probably just frustrating whomever would actually be in a position of actually making it happen.

Thank you for your understanding.

-Aidan Feldman

In a world full of systems generating endless amounts of data, only a small fraction of this information is available to consumers in a format that's easily reusable. This talk is a thought experiment: what would be possible if all data were public, period? What would governments and businesses look like? What would it mean for privacy?

What types of information do we just take for granted as inaccessible, and what are the possibilities if it were open? We'll walk through a couple major news stories and examine how they could have been solved (if not avoided entirely) by full freedom of information. We'll also look at a few hypothetical situations, where entirely open data could make way for new possibilities in productivity, healthcare, transportation, and more.

	require 'rugged'

	repo = Rugged::Repository.new('.')
	walker = Rugged::Walker.new(repo)
	walker.push('refs/heads/gh-pages')

	emails = walker.map do \|commit\|
	commit.author[:email]
	end

	var http = require('http');

	var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
	response.setHeader('content-length', 0);
	response.end();
	});

	server.listen(8000, function() {
	console.log("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/");

	require 'csv'
	require 'pp'

	csv = CSV.read('/Users/aidan/Downloads/Orders-13196243319.csv')
	emails = csv.map{\|c\| c.last.downcase }
	dupes = emails.select{ \|e\| emails.count(e) > 1 }.uniq
	dupes.each do \|dupe\|
	puts dupe
	end

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'octokit'

	token = '*** GET A TOKEN ***'

	c = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => token)
	user_login = c.user.login

	puts "Finding your mentions...\n"

	require 'date'
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'shopify_api'
	ShopifyAPI::Base.site = '...'

	@order = ShopifyAPI::Order.new
	@order.line_items = [{
	:quantity => 1,
	:product_id => 222,
	:variant_id => 333

	order = ShopifyAPI::Order.new
	order.line_items = [{
	:quantity => 1,
	:product_id => 222,
	:variant_id => 333
	}]

	# as a JSON object
	order.note_attributes = [{:foo => 'bar'}]

	function foo(){
	console.log('bar');
	}