Join Geoffrey Arnold, Allegheny County’s Manager of Enterprise Data and Analytics, as he details how his team of five has brought together 80% of its departments with cataloged data on data.world, how they encourage better hands-on data stewardship, and why this matters for the citizens of the county.
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You see, one of our heroes is Tim Berners-Lee and we were particularly inspired by his TED talk on linked data. Also, the name of the underlying semantic web language is Web Ontology Language and the acronym is… wait for it… OWL. Ok, so those are the geeky reasons (and we are indeed data geeks at data.world).