I am so excited to join the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence as its next Executive Director. GovEx's mission has never been more urgent and its opportunity for impact so great. Let's get to work!

I had the privilege of catching up with @ojwise on today's episode of the #DataSmartCityPod. https://t.co/IHfKU9wc4C I highly recommend this episode to our state and city leaders, or anyone interested in where the movement is going, as #AI and #GenAI enter the #opendata convo.

Oh my god this is powerful.

Dream job

Is that Rebirth Brass Band playing the South lawn just now?

I'm excited to speak at this important event tomorrow.

If you are innovating with GenAI to expand access to public data, we want to know about it and hear your input about what possibilities could be unblocked if public data was published in more AI-ready ways. https://t.co/qUsP3U2o3S (9/9)

on how we can better publish data so that we can enable user experiences where anyone can “talk to their data” with Gen AI. (8/x)

I’m excited that the U.S. Department of Commerce has released a Request for Information (that’s government-speak for a Facebook “poke”) to industry, academia, the civil sector, and other government data publishers (7/x)

There is much industry needs to do (and is doing) to make data analysis with gen AI more reliable, but publishers of public data have to do more to do too. (6/x)

so that the meaning of the data is not lost in translation and that users can reliably obtain meaningful, accurate, and fit-to-purpose results from their queries. (5/x)

It is our hypothesis that the machine-readability paradigm of the open data era is insufficient to meet the moment. If users will be using AI as intermediaries to analyze public data, we must make data not only machine-readable but machine-understandable (4/x),

With the potential of countless users now analyzing data leveraging NLP and generative AI, we must rethink how we publish government data to meet the promise of these technologies to democratize access to data. (3/X)

leveraging newly available BI tools, statistical software, and their own contextual understanding of the data. Now, with the eruption of AI, I believe we’re at a similar, if not even more profound juncture. (2/X)

When APIs hit the scene in the early 2000s, innovators in government and civil society met the moment and transitioned from publishing data from merely human-readable tables to machine-readable formats, vastly scaling the ability of users to derive insights from data (1/x)

Am in @CommerceGov’s public meeting on “Request for Information: AI-Ready Open Government Data Assets” & I don’t think I have ever been more impressed with a federal agency. They are moving SO proactively #opendata #opengov

.@ojwise and his team are asking very smart questions about evolution of open data towards AI-readiness. @CommerceGov are asking the public for input. -

This is incredible. From @Jamie_Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

I bumped into one of my all-time heroes this morning on the elevator, @Kasparov63!

Fact: Fairy tale of New York is the best Christmas song ever written.