I am happy to announce Splunk4Good is formally partnering with Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) in 2013! The partnership will lend broad support to GWOB’s mission and encourage the use of Splunk products in humanitarian projects.

GWOB is a non-profit organization with a mission to apply technology as an accelerator for humanitarian projects. In order to achieve this mission GWOB hosts humanitarian hackathons around the globe and also works with humanitarian startups in an accelerator program with 2 cohorts per year.

Read a bit more about GWOB in the words of their Executive Director, Willow Brugh, (and click thru to read their full Theory of Change):

Geeks Without Bounds works towards positive change by bridging the gap between technological

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Yesterday marked an important next step in San Francisco’s Open Data journey.

Back in October, through cooperation with President David Chiu’s office, Mayor Lee’s new Office of Civic Innovation submitted a revised Open Data ordinance to the Board of Supervisors.

This legislation was scheduled for review yesterday, Thursday, March 28th at 10:00am, before the Government Audit and Oversight Committee. The proposed legislation would allow the City to appoint a new Chief Data Officer (CDO) and would compliment the CDO position with department-level Data Coordinators throughout the city.

Jay Nath, the City’s Chief Innovation Officer who has been  leading this effort, in addressing the Supervisors Thursday described open data as “Machine readable raw…

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Splunk4Good’s new intern, Carol Silva, told you recently how excited we were to be sponsoring and hosting StudentRND‘s 1st Code Day SF here at Splunk HQ over President’s Day weekend. I knew it was going to be great, but I had to blog myself to share how absolutely wowed I was at the epic success of this event!

Saturday morning as Tyler Menezes and Chris Engelbrecht from StudentRND finished setting up, the first few kids starting filtering into the Splunk Dev space, all with laptops and some with fancy gaming accessories or sleeping bags in hand. I had my first indicator things were going to be epic when before the keynote even began there was…

Splunk4Good has landed in Washington DC!

I am honored and excited to share the news that I will be speaking on behalf of Splunk4Good at the White House this Wednesday, February 6th at noon EST. That’s right people! Splunk4Good is on the agenda at the FEMA Think Tank meeting on Innovative Solutions in Emergency Management.

Did you know that immediately after Hurricane Sandy made landfall last fall, FEMA deployed an Innovation Team? How cool is that!

In his recent blog post Deputy Administrator Rich Serino described the team:

“Innovation Team– a multi-sector, cross functional group made up of people in government, non-profit and international organizations, volunteer groups, businesses, and concerned citizens: the whole community.  At the most basic

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Splunk4Good and Splunk Dev are excited to announce we have collaborated to build a public data project highlighting FEC Campaign Finance Data! Check the project out by clicking on the image above or clicking here.

Yesterday I blogged about Splunk4Good bringing you new insights in campaign finance. The blog post linked to a video of the Splunked data. While the video was pretty cool, a video just isn’t the same as being able to get your hands on the Splunk instance.

Why did we Splunk the FEC data in the first place? The magic of open data is revealed when the public actually uses the data.

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Splunk4Good is bringing you new insights in campaign finance. We Splunked the FEC Campaign Finance Data! Check out the video:

Why did we Splunk the FEC data in the first place? The magic of open data is revealed when the public actually uses the data.

The video reveals answers to our burning questions:

• What state gives the most?
• Which state gives the most per capita? (Bet you won’t guess this one!)
• What does aggregate giving look like visualized over the election cycle?
• Is your city more Red or more Blue?
• What does a map viz with drilldown reveal about giving by zip codes or cities?
• What occupation gives the most?
• Are geologists more Red or

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Splunk4Good volunteers learn to plant at Full Circle Farms

People inherently want to do good and give back. They simply need help aligning that desire with a meaningful, accessible opportunity.

Splunk4Good‘s mission is to leverage Splunk’s technology and people to democratize data, effect change and improve communities throughout the world.

One way that we are living our mission is with a new Splunk4Good Program that brings employees together with opportunities for meaningful volunteerism. A great example was Splunk’s Group Volunteer event held Friday October 12, 2012 at Full Circle Farms.

Full Circle is an 11-acre production farm, orchard and educational project in Sunnyvale, CA.…

Splunk4Good and Rock the Vote have partnered to build an unique view into the U.S. Election.

Our teams collaborated to build a Splunk powered visualization that displays a unique set of real-time political data about President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The viz will be linked on the Rock the Vote home page through Election Day, November 6, 2012.

Rock the Vote is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization and a key component of their mission is ensuring that the concerns and issues important to young people are part of the national political conversation. Having a real-time window into those concerns will help ensure that the presidential candidates hear about the issues that matter most to young voters.

If…

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