Data Points Podcast
A podcast about government and data.
Telling stories from practitioners and academics about how data affects communities and the lives of residents.
A podcast about government and data. Telling stories from practitioners and academics about how data affects communities and the lives of residents.
— Miami CDO Cheriene Floyd shares how Generative AI is shifting the way cities think about their data.
— A Chief Data Officer’s role in cities is to turn data into a strategic asset, enabling insights that can be leveraged for resident impact. How is this responsibility changing in the age of generative AI?
— We’re joined today by Cheriene Floyd to discuss the shift in how CDOs are making data work for their residents. Floyd discusses her path from serving as a strategic planning and performance manager in the City of Miami to becoming the city’s first Chief Data Officer. During her ten years of service as a CDO, she has come to view the role as upholding three key pillars: data governance, analytics, and capacity-building, helping departments connect the dots between disparate datasets to see the bigger picture.
— As AI changes our relationship to data, it further highlights the adage, “garbage in, garbage out.” Floyd discusses how broad awareness of this truth has manifested in greater buy-in among city staff to leverage data to solve problems, while private sector AI adoption has shifted residents’ expectations when seeking public services. Consequently, the task of shepherding public data becomes even more important, and she offers recommendations from her own experiences to meet these challenges.
Episodes
Episode #100 – The Chief Data Officer: An Essential and Evolving Role in the Age of Generative AI
Miami CDO Cheriene Floyd shares how Generative AI is shifting the way cities think about their data.
Episode #99 – Cities as Engines of Innovation: Insights from GovEx Executive Director Oliver Wise
Oliver Wise has been a data leader in local and federal government, as well as the private sector, and as GovEx’s new Executive Director, he’s betting on cities to lead the way to Gen AI-driven innovation.
Episode #98 – Making Visions Reality: The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative
The innovation program that helps African leaders leverage data tools to achieve legacy goals
Episode #97 – Making Data Accessible: The BREATHE Center’s Lung Health Dashboard
How can data storytelling improve health outcomes and save lives? The Lung Health Dashboard offers one example.
Episode #96 – Equipping Staff to make Better Decisions: The JHU Travel Emissions Dashboard
In partnership with the Office of Climate and Sustainability, GovEx develops an evidence-based tool to track emissions associated with business travel.
Episode #95 – The GovExperts: The “Squishier” Side of Data Use in Cities with Vidushani Jayalal
She talks about the importance of thinking not just about how data works, but about how people work together and solve problems using data as a shared
Episode #94 – The GovExperts: What Data-Driven Culture Means for Cities with Dr. Sara Bertran de Lis
We talk about her path from astrophysics to data science and her groundbreaking work on the new City Data Explorer.
Episode #93 – Communicating with Data: How Do Cities Measure Up?
How well do cities communicate with data? What opportunities are they missing? GovEx Senior Research Manager Dr. Jacquie Greiff and Senior Researcher Chance Carter address these questions and more in their recent analysis of 2023 State of the City speeches.
Episode #92 – The GovExperts: The Power of Effective Instructional Design with Dr. Jessica Arends
Today we’re chatting with Dr. Jessica Arenda, GovEx’s Instructional Designer. She helps us understand what makes adult...
Episode #91 – 2024: The Year Cities Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
Outgoing GovEx Executive Director Amy Edwards Holmes reflects on a momentous year for cities and data.