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Solutions Search: Updated Visual City Solutions

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May 12, 2022 Data Visualization The Data-Smart City Solutions team has updated the Solutions Search project with additional visual and geospatial solutions to critical urban problems. The searchable database indexes work on city, county, state, and...

Solutions Search: Geospatial Tools for Urban Problems

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April 24, 2018 Solutions Search Data-Smart City Solutions today launched a searchable public database comprising cutting-edge examples of public sector data use. The "Solutions Search" indexes interactive maps and visualizations, spanning civic issue...

Tribal Resources Added to Solutions Search

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September 14, 2020 Data Visualization Data-Smart City Solutions highlights how local governments are solving problems, providing quality services, and engaging communities with data. In order to be inclusive and address a diversity of governing challenges...

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This searchable database indexes visual and geospatial solutions to critical urban problems. Examples span the city, county, state, and federal levels, and feature a wide variety of interventions and initiatives, including maps, data visualizations, and...

Covid-19 Dashboards: Examples from the Civic Analytics Network

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During a crisis, it’s crucial that governments share information efficiently and transparently. Many cities in our Civic Analytics Network (CAN) are working hard to visualize and share figures on the COVID-19 pandemic, so residents can understand the...

Putting Data to Work: Data for Job Training & Placement

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March 15, 2018 Civic Data The U.S. currently has an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. While the lowest since 2000, this number is by no means a floor: with creative tech and policy solutions, there are a number of opportunities to help more individuals...

Doing Away with Government Forms

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October 10, 2017 Civic Data This article originally appeared in Government Technology Magazine. Few would consider forms a particularly exciting area of opportunity for government innovation. And yet, here’s a solution that would probably spark the...

Beyond the Suggestion Box

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December 5, 2013 Crowdsourcing This post originally appeared on Governing.com. Most government leaders are restlessly on the search for new ideas, for innovation, for whatever is next. It may be their good luck that this is shaping up to be a Golden Age...

Dr. Colleen McCue: Pioneer in Data Analytics

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Dr. Colleen McCue, whose team helped catch the sniper, came to the world of law enforcement through a commitment to helping others, instilled in her at an early age by her family. Her drive to support others led Dr. McCue from a doctorate in psychology...

Stat, Meet AI: The Next Evolution of Performance Management

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“Stat” management programs, inspired decades ago by New York City's CompStat and Baltimore's CitiStat, still constitute a critical component of a well-managed city. The top stat programs feature a senior city official who, with analytics support...

#ThisWeekInData December 4, 2020

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December 4, 2020 Civic Data WIRED UK: OSLO GOT PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST DEATHS DOWN TO ZERO. HERE’S HOW Data shows that the “pedestrianisation” of Oslo, which decreased reliance on cars and increased both walking and biking, has successfully eliminated...

#ThisWeekInData June 26, 2020

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June 26, 2020 Civic Data SMITHSONIAN MAG: CITIES ARE EYEING MICROTRANSIT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC The transportation sector has experienced severe challenges during the current pandemic; sometimes public transit runs nearly empty and loses fares, and at...