so what is open data? open date it is structured data. spreadsheets, a tabular form. it is not .pdf or word documents, and because of that, it is a machine readable, and that is an important part of it here you can create applications and analysis out of it. there is a lot you can do. open did it is also freely available to the public at no charge with very minimal restrictions. it also respects existing privacy and security laws that are in place, whether local, state, or federal, and it is really a proactive disclosure of government information. departments and agencies are for one actively putting structured machine-readable data out into the public. so why is open did it important? if improve transparency and accountability. journalists have access to more information. artists, technology community -- generally, anyone interested in government has structured information they can use for various reasons. it also stimulates economic development. we have seen a number of companies that have been substantiated both here locally and elsewhere. an example i would like t

it is not the department heads, not the city's data, it is the public's data. we have an obligation, i would say, to push it out to the public to make it available and useful to the public. when you do that, it can help the department and city, but most importantly, it can help the public. it can be very empowering. a lot of what we do, whether it is abating graffiti, picking up trash, filling pot holes, improves someone's quality of life. when a neighborhood group is getting together to see how they can improve the conditions in their neighborhood, it is hard for them to do so if they do not know what the crime looks like in the neighborhood, where they have the legal dumping problems. community groups can then have real data to base their solutions on. it is very empowering in that respect. it can help us avoid a lot of cumbersome public record requests, rather than waiting for people to come to us to pull data out, we push it to them. they do not have to come and ask us for it, which for us to track it down. it is available for them to use. and finally, the

and i want to echo the call for more assignment data early. preliminary data, initial data. i think it will go a long way to continue to develop trust, that the process really is working and there isn't a secret black box and i do not know how to dispel the rumor, but is there. >> i just wanted to make a brief comment about what come fewer said about having a more uniform start time. i know that when i was looking at schools, one of the things that i loved about that was it was a late start time. and there are other people in the community that shows garfield because it was a much earlier start time and that worked better for their schedules. from what i have heard in the community, i don't know if a uniform start time would work the best for all parents. >> i am hoping that we will also look at the 2010 census and see how those numbers sort of, you know, correlate with our numbers about attendants and to is actually living here. thanks. >> items wanted to make sure i have captured the key point. one of those is looking at data just beyond the assignment data and looking at

, reliable data and timely access to that data.e most effective way to achieve the goals of consolidated a arbitraged is to extend existing systems such as those and consolidate exchange data with discreet new data like large trader information into a central -- building off existing systems with reduced time required for implementation of a fully consolidated on a trailer and information to the surveillance systems. significant changes in the financial market in recent years necessitated adaptation by regulators across a wide spectrum of issues. technological policy development made this practice of regulating the markets more complex. the sec has identified one of the most pressing challenges for regulators. we are all hampered by lack of a comprehensive sufficiently granular and robust audit trail across the equities market. ready to work with congress and the commission and as our owns to bring about an enhanced audit trail that will facilitate more effective surveillance for the protection of investors. thank you for the oppor

that's the kind of data that our data retention policy deletes in the 90 days so it's not kept in perpetuity. but what we're trying to do is looking for different ways to really make this kind of information a lot more understandable, to simplify it, to really speak to consumers in a language they can understand, and we're looking for symbols, we're looking for shortcuts to get consumers really actionable privacy information that they don't have to dig around and look for that's really readily available to them in the product interaction. >> guest: well, i mean, i think that's exactly right. and, you know, yahoo! has a wonderful and very evolved data retention policy. when you do a yahoo! search, they only keep the data, i think as ann mentioned, for 90 days. and one of the things that we say in this our report is the data should only be kept as long as necessary. and so we want to see more responsible companies out there. a lot of them are, but not all of them. >> host: so let's dig a little more into do not track. as you mentioned, microsoft just announced that internet explorer 9 would ha

collecting data -- whether that data is useful is a different item? we are more than happy to do an analysis of the data collected. it does have interest to us. there can be a correlation made with substantial statistical liability, probably, the would allow us to compare scores and see if there is an aftereffect. that would be in our best interest. commissioner wynns: ok. we will explore that. thank you. president kim: thank you. roll call, please. [roll is called] commissioner norton: reluctantly, yes. president kim: our next item is item q, superintendents proposals for first reading. we have won tonight, authorization to grant or to deny the international school's petition for a new charter school. i made a motion and i need a second. commissioner yee: second. president kim: this will be referred to curriculum committee and budget committee. the next is board members' proposals, item r, for first reading. it is in support of denouncing the deportation of shing ma "steve" li, a dream at student at city college of san francisco. we need a movement t

there needs to be uniform data, reliable data, and timely access to the data.st timely way to achieve the goals is to expand existing systems and consolidate exchange data with discreet new data into a central repository. building up existing systems could reduce the cost and time required and integration of the audit trail into existing systems. changes in financial markets have necessitated adaptations among regulators across a wide spectrum of issues. the practice of regulating the markets are a more -- is a more complex task. it is a pressing challenge. we are hampered by the lack of a comprehensive and robust consolidated audit trail across the equity markets. we will work with congress to help bring about a consolidated audit trail that will facilitate more effective surveillance. thank you for the opportunity to share our views. i would be happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you for your testimony. as soon as we conclude, we will recognize the senator who has just joined us. we want to focus on the market participants. >> they do not have th

supervisor chiu: your data goes to the end of last year, but we are not looking at any data per 2010, right? >> we are not looking at data that specifically isolates' only 2010. supervisor chiu: i am looking to the entire presentation and it seems like there is no 2010 data. we can talk about this later, but i am trying to understand what the 2010 picture looks like. >> we do not have anything that specifically looks at the lbe data at in isolation from the point that this legislation was passed. the one thing i can tell you regarding the legislation and timing of it -- one of the things that was -- one piece of the legislation that the hrc and lbes in general were glad to see where the changes to the micro set aside program. that is one thing i can isolate. i do not have it as a slide. we have approximately five and 10 micra set aside -- mircro set aside contracts in previous years, and now we have a to 1520 -- and now we have 15 to 20. that has doubled, if not tripled. that strengthens the micro set aside program enforces departments to report on that in collaboration with hrc. one

you can assemble blocks up to county level from that data. in february through the end of march, and then we will have profiles and other styles released they will give results on all sorts of geographical affirmation. >> way back in the room here. >> you spoke about the plays that the population growth, and could is specifically speak about california? we grew by 10%. how much of that was immigration and how much of that was natural birth? california is different from the rest of the country in this area. >> on december 6, and we released estimates of the population based on birth and death certificates, it in migrants and out migrants. that data and process do not permit us to go down to the state level. the answer to your question, we do not really have. we have a wonderfuleople reportr were they live in the prior year. they would be one way of going about answering that question. i do not have that data with me. >> let's check to see if we have a question from the operator. >> new haven, conn. >> thank you and good morning. of what like t

i do not have the data. each of the areas will have some schools that are in need of intensive support. however, the superintendent zones are 100% for schools that have high need. some of them are in the low- performing schools. ionly two of mine are considered for the next year, and we tried to meet the plan. >> our district also made the case said by reorganizing our district, we could better respond by providing intervention to some low- performing schools, so they have identified five more schools. our theory of action is relates to say the superintendent zone where we dedicate our resources and will positively impact student learning and outcome. this could -- the specifics are what we are here to talk about today. this is split into two areas teams. my team consists of various mainly in the mission district. >> i would like to go over some of the goals and strategies they have. we decided we would like to have all of the principles. we also are striving to have double-digit growth in the number of prof

that's the data that the data retention policy deletes after 90 days so it's not kept, but what we're trying to do rather than rely on a privacy policy, we are looking for ways to make this kind of information a lot more understandable, so simple fie it, and talk to consumers in a language they can understand, and we're looking for symbols, shortcuts to get consumers really actionable privacy information that they don't have to dig around and look for, but it's ready for them in the product interaction. >> well, i mean, i think that's exactly right, and, you know, yahoo has a wonderful and very evolved data retention policy. they only keep the data, i think, as anne mentioned, for 90 days, and one of the things we say in the report is data should only be kept as long as necessary, and so we want to see more responsible companies out there. a lot of them are, but not all of them. >> let's dig more into do not track. microsoft announced internet 9 has a traction protection policy on it. what specifically do you think of that technology? it includes a component of various groups, individ

we also look at testing better ways to use data. we get a lot of data but is it the right data? do we know enough about your supply chain to be able to essentially negate compliance, low risk importers. if i know who your manufacturer or your carrier or warehouse and i see that pattern and comfortable with that pattern of moving goods i should be looking at it. if icy a manufacturer that i know is not one of your licensees or protected good, but we need to do some tests with in specific industries to focus on that data to refine our targeting and risk assessments. another effort we have undertaken the commissioner mentioned is the import safety and our partnerships with other government agencies. we have 53 other government agencies that interact with us at the border. 47 of those agencies are members of the international trade data system. 12 are really where most of the work gets done. ten of those 12 attended the import safety conference at the end of october that pulled together the heads of each of those agencies into a senior forum with facilitation at the border. we have

not being the lack of data head horse, but if you go ahead and move forward without the data, how quickly will you know that you've gotten it wrong? are there things that you will watch for to pay that we have driven specklators off of that side of the deal? and that burdens on hedgers have increased? i'm assuming, mr. gensler, you mean increased cost of transactions and other things that you might expand on a burden a little bit. how quickly will you know that you've done some harm rather than just trying to ease into this thing without disrupting and creating crazy as mr. chilton said. what are your benchmarks to say this one was too far? >> well, it's my hope, and again we haven't had the commission meeting that we'll have tomorrow, it's my hope that we'll propose something and hear from the public that would allow us some time to get the data on the all months combined. maybe disclosing my bias here, but i think that -- you know, it is a challenge. there's 180-day and 270-day statutory date. commissioner chilton and i read that the same way. >> excuse me. with respect to that, do you

but we looked at the data. we are data-driven we looked at what came out of children's hospital of philadelphia, nhtsa -- we have been working for 10 years to put inflatable built into production. we did not want a repeat of airbags so we went with due care analyses. the answer is, we thought it was the right thing to do and that is why we did it. >> thank you. i think we heard a lot of this afternoon about how much we advanced child passenger safety but we also heard we should not assume that we are done. some of the aspects are that we have some children still unrestrained or need to be in the proper restraints but we also heard some of the complexity. just looking at some of the displays in front of us, we see the large variety of seats. in the automotive seat in the rear, this ball -- dol representl -- represents the size of a child who could appropriately where an adult seat belt compared to guidelines but that child is a very large child. there are complexities among all of the staging that we will look a

in exchange for data. as we work to negotiate, we got to a point where the costs were too high for the district. in return for their assistance, they wanted 17 years of data. 10 years of historical data and seven years of data into the future. they wanted to talk

the acs survey is rich in economic data, housing data, travel, patterns of travel to work and so on. using those in combination is a wonderful way to understand this country. that is how we use them at the census bureau. >> we will do a couple more questions in the room and go back to the phone. >> going into today, there was speculation that new york might lose only one house seat instead of two. how close was it? how much of the slow population growth in the york was due to migration? >> i will disappoint you because i cannot answer either one of your questions at this point. your first question is answerable by going through the apportionment process and seeing how far down n.y. was for the second question is a little like other questions we talked about today. piecing apart the causes of growth or decline is really a complicated process. the census is a snapshot. we have two portraits, 2000- 2010. i focus your attention on the debt is between those two time flies. a lot happened in 10 years. the singapore the marginal effects of those are very difficult. this is the matter -- pie

they only keep the data for a; 90 days. one of the things -- for 90 days. one of the things we said in our report was the data should be released more frequently. >> as you mentioned, microsoft just announced yesterday that internet explorer 9 will have a do not track feature. what do you think of that? it allows people to have their own list of sites that are red lighted and green lighted. what do you think of that particular functionality? >> per se, i want to commend microsoft for doing this and for giving users a real choice about being tracked by third-party cookies. we want feedback because that is one approach you can take to block third-party trackers. i think what they are doing is really an important step forward. we would like to see other technology companies -- we have been talking to various vendors -- move forward as well. i think you will see that in the coming days. we are hoping that the advertising community will also support this. >> speaking of the advertising community, here is with the interactive advertising bureau had to say about t

of consumer data industry association.e me some idea, can you volumize how much data is in your association, by the way, stuart? we represent a lot of different models, consumer credit associations --. >> how many --. >> they have probably 250 million credit reports and we're updating four billion data elements a month. >> that's a sizable amount, is it not, evan hendricks who is editor and publisher of "privacy times". by the way he has written this great book, a great read --. >> named book of the month. >> credit scores and credit reports, how the system work and what you can do. do you want to comment about anything he has said? >> information about social security very valuable. one of the tough things about sit that we don't own data about us. when companies like stuart collects it, they own our names, we don't own them that's why they can traffic in our names. >> when you own a volume of data you can sell it for a subs shal commercial reward. >> it's an extremely lucrative business. >> we have the chairman who was p

or waiting in traffic with the other data. adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different non-interfering wave links and to that the fact that each plane is flying in speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of data the firm like google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. there are some one hundred data centers being set up every year around the world these are enormous factories for data processing consuming a huge amount of energy. in two thousand and six the data processing industry two percent of electric energy production in the united states that's a huge number so expect to revolutionize the optical interconnects industry in the near future with research and development and production sites in germany. so obviously the right conditions for top russian optoelectronics technologies to develop have been set up in. two competitive firms with. and possibly. bring them home. from the. project an

it's estimated that as much as 80% of data theft is done by insiders. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> suzanne: the other big story we're following? the tax debate on capitol hill. president obama today pressed lawmakers to finish negotiating and approve this week the extension of the bush tax cuts. tonight, washington bureau chief darren gersh takes us to where the proverbial rubber meets the road. >> reporter: is the cubicle half full or half empty? that's what the tax debate in washington comes down to for a small business like joseph w. mccartin insurance incorporated. extend the bush tax cuts and pass the agreement the president struck with republicans, and there will likely be a new employee sitting here next year. don't act and someone may lose a job, says owner mike mccartin. >> if we incurred a tax increase, the only place to cut it would be labor. >> reporter: mccartin employs 15 people in a small office not far from the proverbial washington beltway. it's hard to imagine a couple hundred billion in tax cuts. it's easier t

this whole question of data i think has or needs a very close look by the water management data. when you take the wrapper off of this you see it has lots of warts on it, let me talk about the,nrcs, in the west. i know you all have your own. but i saw a persuasive speech by randy who is quite properly convincing. changes all the way from stainless steel pillows to ten gallons and black pillows of this. vegetationle changes, the lesson here, i think in general and this applies to,usgs, and national weather, we need to make sure the networks are in good enough shape to make these decisions. they don't cost a lot of money but you need to know the data out there is quite flawed and we need to take care of it and make sure in the future it's doing what it needs to for us. let me expand this. there's a very nasty fight going on on the future of some satellites right now. the fight involved climate centers on these centers and certain governments want to toss them in favor of weather sensors. weather is important but climate also is. it effects all of us. no data means no good research

data.org, you'll get the data we put up. we're barely getting started, we only have 150 data, we're getting started and tomorrow coincidentally, i'm going to acquire with the ordinance, diane executive order and codify with an ordinance to make san francisco government responsible for putting up thousands of data from every city department. be it the department of environment, be it the department of public works, be it the police department and the fire department, et cetera to do the following. we put muni information up, company out of nowhere comes together and calls roots and takes information that exists so you could go on your p.d.a. and instead of worrying about whether we're on time with the public transit, you could find ow in realtime exactly when the bus will arrive. you got mothers that came together, because -- they actually -- are working more collaboratively to celebrate a lot of work that has been done to our play grounds in san francisco and they put together a mom map application, which uses the g.p. snfme

we plan to continue to capture data from the remaining schools. in total, there are 59 schools where there is yellow bus transportation. the transportation department, although they do not capture the names of students, do capture information about the numbers that get on and off at every stop. we know about 3300 students ride the bus. the responses from the school capture information for 2800 of those writers. -- riders. while it is not 100%, it does give a general sense, and we will continue to capture information. we created pin maps that we hope will tell lot more than quantitative data. they tell a story that it -- they tell a story visually. this first pin map shows the students -- where the students live that ride the bus in the morning only. because there are some students to catch a bus just in the morning. there are some who just use a bus in the afternoon. and there are some who use a bus morning and afternoon. so, the students to ride the bus just in the morning -- it is about 11% of the students. these red dots on the map show you whe

the american community survey, on the other hand, is rich in characteristic data, socioeconomic data, travel patterns to work and so on. and so using those in combination is a wonderful way to understand this country, and that is how we use them at the census bureau. >> we have time for four or five more questions. the gentleman in this room and then back to the phone. do we have a microphone for you? >> we lost the mike. >> i write for began either newspapers in new york. going into today, there was speculation that new york might lose only one house seat instead of two. how close was it, and the state's chloe population -- flow population? >> the second question is a little like other questions we have talked about today. piecing apart the growth or deadline is a complicated process. the census is a snapshot. so we have two portraits, 2000, and 2010. i focused your attention on the different between those two time points. a lot happened in those 10 years. as you can go through in your own mind for new york, and we can all do this. piecing apart the marginal effects of those is very

we will continue to get the data from the rest of the schools. that will allow us to send direct communication to families about any changes that are going to occur. it will also allow us to capture more information in terms of why families use services and stuff like that. the next part of the agenda is designed to give the board a sense of how stuff is actually going to create the transportation service plan under the new board policy. the handout that i gave you, which talks about transportation will not be the same -- it is the word document. on pages four and five of that, you can see the kinds of questions that we are asking to help us determine the routes. and we know that we are looking at a 57% reduction. this is a slide we have seen before. that is by 2013. we are looking at phasing out stops over a 23 year. so it will not all happen immediately. that would give of families more time to have information and plan. this is to show you how we are using data and questions to guide development for information for schools. one goal in the pol

so it is inseparable from that data.and important, health care research will improve both in terms of public health monitoring and testing and clinical trials. real time identify the data will allow much fasterx?z? identification, cd problems with drugs and medical devices allow early awareness of infections, epidemics and other threats to the public health.÷? this is a benefit to the public? through hhs agencies like the fda and cdc and state public health authorities as well.z? an example of this is the devotee of the kaiser permanent? a we are going to hear from in a moment with their electronic patient records to identify the? problems of cardiac side effects long before the marketplace studies revealed the spirit also, clinical research studies by the nih will be dramatically enhanced and accelerated by the capabilities. extensive sampling to be randomized clinical trials will not always be needed because an accurate information about patients' conditions can sure which particular groups of patients are more likely

sales data and this will probably help the russian market as well and most important piece of data is coming out on thursday that's the u.s. jobless claims. if positive will continue the trend that we've seen last. week before thanksgiving where we've seen but the lowest level of drug was claims in the last eighteen months. and russia's gas export monopoly gas problem estimates the south stream pipeline across the black sea to europe will cost about twenty billion dollars the offshore part of the pipe may cost fifteen billion dollars at current prices while the onshore section in europe is expected to cost half of that and investment decision on the project is to be made by mid april. raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months cited higher oil prices and a favorable settlement in ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under international accounting rules credited cost controls with generating record free cash flow. as for investment around eighty percent is planned to be spent on exploration and production twenty percent will be sp

there is continued data analysis. the bottom line is, in our projections for implementation, we expect the total count of buildings to be about 15% larger in both cases. we need to sift through that data from the assessor report. we're doing a new task, so the city databases are not exactly attuned to what we need. chairperson maxwell: am i hearing you say that between five and 10 is quite a few buildings? >> yes. chairperson maxwell: it almost sounds like the majority of the buildings. >> if this error did not exist, there would be more than 10,000 buildings that would be in that small category. but in practice, probably at least half of them are really -- would need to be assembled together to line -- to add up to larger buildings. we could add the buildings in each of the size classes. if a condominium is considered a separate personal, it does not have -- if a condominium is considered a separate parcel, it does not have -- supervisor chiu: this initial audit -- is it a representative sample of large, small, and m