Open Data

May 25, 2021 COVID-19 In this special episode Professor Steve Goldsmith interviews Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Mayor Ras Baraka as part of an event on addressing vaccine hesitancy. Based in a recent research project of 18 American cities using sentiment...

May 19, 2021 Civic Data Want to learn more? Check out the 2020 State of Digital Transformation report. In this episode, Professor Steve Goldsmith interviews David Eaves, author and lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Eaves recently co...

May 3, 2021 Indian Country Founded by Professors Joseph P. Kalt and Stephen Cornell in 1987, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) aims to “understand and foster the conditions under which sustained, self-determined social...

April 7, 2021 COVID-19 Want to learn more? Check out this Data-Smart City Solutions article about Maryland's model of data-driven governance in response to COVID-19. In this third episode of the Data-Smart City Pod, Professor Steve Goldsmith interviews...

February 23, 2021 Data Visualization Want to learn more? Check out this Data-Smart City Solutions article about SCAG's work creating a more prosperous and equitable future for Southern California residents. Data-Smart City Solutions is proud to share 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...

November 17, 2020 COVID-19 Back in late March and early April, an outbreak of coronavirus was surging in New York City. At that time, it was the largest hot spot for new cases in the country and would soon become the world’s epicenter. In the face of the...

August 26, 2020 What Works Cities Finding and fixing inequities in 311 responses. Conducting outreach with youth interested in criminal justice reform. Standing up a teleworking tracking system for city employees. To say that Baltimore’s Office of...