This Month in Technical.ly History: The Evolution of OpenDataPhilly

Over the years, we’ve covered OpenDataPhilly more than a few times.

From the project’s work compiling climate change data before Trump’s inauguration to sharing how to get new datasets of public interest featured, our history goes back to, well, the beginning of OpenDataPhilly: Mayor Michael Nutter actually signed the Open Data Executive Order during the second Philly Tech Week in April 2012.

One year later — at a time when open data as a concept was still “fairly unknown” to the public, said the Office of Innovation and Technology’s current data services manager, Kistine Carolan — OpenDataPhilly had released 46 datasets, including crime data and property assessments.

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