Hacking the Hackathon
Your city publishes high-quality open data, and you use that data to make smart policy decisions. Done? Not so fast. Your open data also has…
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Enabling Civic Data Standards
Governments share lots of data with the public, and unleash more every day. Open data is improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people,…
Strategic Storytelling with Open Data
Without context, data is just data to most people. Numbers on a screen and lines on a chart. Sure, there are people who look at…
Rethink Heatmaps
Pew’s recent study made it clear that people want more context with their data. To meet this opportunity, governments and vendors have created tools that…
How Open Data Is Closing Poverty
“Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of…
“What is Data Science” (December 2015 Office Hours)
What Works Cities have been told they need to make progress in data science practices and build data science teams. But most people don’t know…
“David vs. Goliath” (November 2015 Office Hours)
What Works Cities want to know how they can change the culture and practices of an entire city with so few people and resources. We…
“If I knew then . . .” (October 2015 Office Hours)
Andrew Nicklin and Carter Hewgley share the top three things they wish they knew when starting out in Open Data and Performance Analytics. Kansas City…
These 8 Cities Are About To Become Better Places To Live
Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the first cities selected to participate in What Works Cities – a $42 million initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities…