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Baseball is a game of numbers. As spring training wraps up and the season approaches, each team is trying to set targets for their performance this…

Last week, the White House launched the Opportunity Project, an initiative aimed at leveraging federal and city data to improve urban economic mobility. GovEx joins more…

Wouldn’t it be great if your stat program could get you quick wins while also building community engagement? That’s just what the Seattle Police Department…

Introduction Open data and performance analytics are often separate practices, but are inextricable when it comes to the operations of modern governance. Open data provides…

Open Data Day 2016 is just around the corner on March 5th. GovEx is getting into the international hack day spirit by offering a few…

Over the last nine months, the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) has visited nearly 50 cities across the United States. These “discovery sessions” help Bloomberg…

Open data has many benefits for governments and communities: providing new channels to engage residents and community groups, increasing government transparency, and improving internal efficiency…

Working with cities across the US on open data initiatives, one question I hear over and over is “How can we make sure the data…

I was late to a meeting when the elevator stopped to pick up two more people, one significantly older than the other, but both employees…

It’s been nice to see some recent online discussion around the power of blockchain technologies and how they might play a role in the open…