How LA Used Big Data to Build a Smart City in the 1970s

Gizmodo: In December 2013, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an executive order instructing each city department to gather all the data it collects and share it on a publicly accessible website by early the following year. In February 2014, he appointed LA’s first Chief Innovation Technology Officer, and a few months later he launched DataLA, the city’s online data portal. The launch, aimed at a generation who had grown up with smart phones, the internet, and GIS mapping, was promoted with a hackathon hosted at City Hall.

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