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OK, we're back after lunch at #xoxo and next up is ERIN KISSANE @kissane who is also responsible for ThIS CARD that we made and love
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Erin: "People forget what it was like before React."
*applause*
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and... the wonderful experience of working with amazing data journalists…
hey guess what tell us your favorite datasets
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Erin's talking about the Covid Tracking Project and how every day the team would wake up wanting to see the CDC finally get their data together...
Oh boy let me tell you How Hard It is To Build Government Technology and infrastructure like “knowing how many people have covid" and “where are vaccines”:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020811/better-tech-government-pandemic-united-states/
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(Me: The dirty secret of a volunteer organization with SO MUCH MORE LATITUDE and ability and capacity to build infrastructure, because the institutional belief that the U.S. shouldn't even *have* functional government in the first place and hollowed it out. It's a fucking disgrace.
Erin's point: without the social internet, volunteers *wouldn't have been able* to organize to build the tracking site. It's the people. Always has been.gif
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