New Somerville ‘Data Farm' Gives Real-Time Look at City Operations

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

Press release from the city: http://www.somervillema.gov/news/new-somerville-data-farm-gives-real-time-look-city-operations

SOMERVILLE - Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone is excited to announce a new home for the City's data sets, which gives Somerville residents easy access to the same data he uses to make decisions. Now you can take a trip to the Data Farm to follow data trends in the City and use the data for your own analysis.

Somerville's Data Farm (www.somervillema.gov/datafarm) is home to "locally sourced and handpicked food for thought," which includes three portals of data visualizations as well as a fourth portal with the "data seeds" (the raw data) used to "grow" the other portals: [portals over there]

I have always appreciated the data that this city uses to make decisions about where to aim resources. I think it's very shrewd.

They went all out with puns: "Locally sourced & handpicked food for thought", "Artisanal" data, and more.

Direct link to the main dashboard: http://www.somervillema.gov/dashboard

Comments

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

This is really cool, and I love the clever puns. Thanks for sharing!

~Sor