Research Tools: “Washington DC Launches Open Data Chatbot”
From Planetizen:
Washington, D.C. recently launched a generative AI tool trained on 2,000 open data sets, reports Jonathan Andrews for Cities Today. The beta version of DC Compass, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, is now accessible to city staff and residents to ask data-oriented civic questions and generate maps at a keystroke.
The city worked with Esri, a giant in the geographic information systems space, on a private beta for six months to improve the software, which is powered by Esri’s cloud-based mapping and analysis platform ArcGIS Online.
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“We are excited to be chosen as the first jurisdiction to use this ground breaking technology and make our nearly 2,000 open data sets accessible to users with a simple AI-driven chatbot,” said Interim Chief Technology Officer Stephen Miller. “You no longer need to be a data scientist or a spreadsheet wizard to analyse DC’s vast open data catalogue.”
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