"Dean of Big Data" Bill Schmarzo: "smart" takes a community

Cash-strapped cities get help from volunteer coders (Reposted and updated)

"I love civic tech," says the data industry's "Dean of Big Data" Bill Schmarzo, renowned data science and data monetization strategic advisor. He loves it, and he has ideas about how to make it work. It takes more than love to bear fruit.

Civic tech is possibly the most exciting aspect of "smart cities" today. Think of it: Cities want the technology to m…