Lessons from the COVID data wizards

Lessons from the COVID data wizards

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this March 2022 article by Nature which discusses the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. — In March 2020, Beth Blauer started hearing anecdotally that COVID-19...
Four ways to make data work better for residents

Four ways to make data work better for residents

Read Full Article on Medium If you’re reading this and you work in local government, chances are you already know the importance of data. You might also feel pressure to do more with data: generate more, analyze more, report more. If this neverending push...
The US still isn’t getting Covid-19 data right

The US still isn’t getting Covid-19 data right

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this February 2022 article by CNN. — As the Omicron wave recedes in the United States, public health officials are faced with a new round of decision-making on the best...
U.S. Covid-19 Infections Top One Million After Holiday Backlog

U.S. Covid-19 Infections Top One Million After Holiday Backlog

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer is quoted in this January 2020 article by the Wall Street Journal. — More than one million new Covid-19 infections were reported in the U.S., a sign of the rapid spread of the Omicron...
Covid-19 Data Is a Mess. We Need a Way to Make Sense of It.

Covid-19 Data Is a Mess. We Need a Way to Make Sense of It.

Our Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact Executive Director Beth Blauer along with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on November 23, 2020. —...
Banish the thumb drive: a call for better internal data sharing

Banish the thumb drive: a call for better internal data sharing

Some people’s pet peeve is loud chewing; others hate the Oxford comma. Here’s mine: thumb drives.  First of all, can we choose one name for these things? They’re also referred to as “flash drives,” “jump drives,” and “USB drives,” plus a few other names. Let’s choose...