The Responsive City

How can data and analytics be used to enhance city operations? What kinds of operations-enhancing questions have cities asked and answered with data and analytics? The catalog below is an ongoing, regularly-updated resource for those interested in knowing...

May 15, 2017 Civic Data In Boston, when an ambulance arrives at an address in under six minutes, when a resident’s call to 311 is answered in less than 30 seconds, or when a restaurant inspector finds a health code violation before anyone gets sick, there...

December 19, 2016 Civic Analytics Network The proliferation of civic tech projects has led to a growing number of vendors who offer off-the-shelf products for cities and municipalities. At the National League of Cities summit, which brought over 3,500...

November 8, 2016 Predictive Analytics Governments today operate in an increasingly complex world, reflected in the volume and ubiquity of data produced by citizens and agencies, as well as the computing power to analyze it. In order to better understand...

October 27, 2016 Civic Engagement This article originally appeared in Government Technology magazine. A tech champion in a government entity needs to cultivate allies, especially when the innovation presents transformative opportunity. In my last column...

October 12, 2016 What Works Cities Since New Orleans began its recovery after Hurricane Katrina, the city has been tackling its problem with blighted properties in a variety of ways. Reducing blight has been one of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s top priorities...

October 4, 2016 Civic Data This post originally appeared in Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled many promising technologies, from sophisticated voice recognition to...

October 3, 2016 Infrastructure It’s five minutes into your morning commute, and whether you’re driving, biking, or walking, you can see them in the distance: orange cones, cordoning off large sections of a busy city street. Within their perimeter are...

September 13, 2016 Civic Data The open data and open source movements seen in today’s cities are often associated with massive troves of online data, cutting-edge predictive analytics algorithms, data-tracking sensors, and other forward-thinking solutions...

August 31, 2016 The Responsive City This article originally appeared in the Journal of Law & Public Affairs , Volume I, Issue I, Summer 2016. Introduction: Trust in Local Government “Local” matters now as never before. Prominent voices across the academic...