Civic Analytics Network

January 21, 2022 Workforce Louisville, Kentucky is known for many things: the famous fried chicken, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, the Kentucky Derby, Muhammad Ali. But Louisville isn’t immune to challenges like “coastal brain drain” and automation...

March 9, 2021 City Administration This article originally appeared in Government Technology. For our country to get back on track, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and prioritize essential public services with restricted budgets. Even with federal...

January 27, 2021 Civic Analytics Network “2020 alerted cities to the broad power of data. 2021 will alert city leaders to how one can perform better, faster, and cheaper through the application of data,” said Stephen Goldsmith, Derek Bok Professor of the...

January 11, 2021 Civic Analytics Network This article originally appeared in The Business of Government. The COVID-19 crisis has drawn increased attention to government data, and to the ability to quickly link important data sets across diverse sources...

December 17, 2020 Civic Analytics Network One runs out of adjectives to describe 2020: unprecedented, extraordinary, nightmarish, unlucky, devastating. Racial tensions reached a long-coming boiling point, the unemployment rate skyrocketed, democracy was...

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...

There are over 2,000 datasets published by the City of New York on the NYC Open Data portal. There are spreadsheets about everything from landmark violation complaints to elder abuse to campaign finance contributions to the Queens library branches. Enough...

December 18, 2019 Mobility In today’s rapidly-changing transportation landscape, Seleta Reynolds, the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, is guiding mobility from a place of empathy and equity. Reynolds uses partnerships...

November 25, 2019 Mobility By the time Meera Joshi stepped into her role as the Commissioner of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) in 2014, overseeing the largest private for-hire ground transportation industry in the United States...

November 12, 2019 Equity This post is part of the Innovating for Equity series. As part of our Innovating for Equity series, we’re examining how some local leaders have now taken on the painstaking work of scrubbing biases and barriers out of their...