Datapolitan

Numbers speak to our head. Stories speak to our hearts. When data tells a true and compelling story, we bring heart and head together in order to create action.

Most popular datasets for August '23: 1. Fire Incidents 2. Police Department Incident Reports 3. Registered Business Locations 4. Street Sweeping Schedule 5. Film Locations in San Francisco Find it all on the Open Data Portal (data.sfgov.org/browse)

I had an epiphany at a recent conference and wanted to share my thoughts. I've always looked at #dataanalysis as craft and what we teach as tradecraft rather than technology training. Hopefully this helps clarify what we mean. Interested in your thoughts. buff.ly/3qj2yPK

Thanks @waynestatelib for listing our Intro to #GIS Fundamentals class in your Digital Mapping Tools Research Guide! We hope it's helpful to all your students and anyone interested in getting started with #QGIS bit.ly/intro-gis-fund…

Join us next Friday for our in-person #opendata course: Seeing the City in Data. It runs from 10am to 12pm at Good Coworking in Dallas and is open to everyone, no matter what your skill level. We look forward to having you join us! buff.ly/3GJyqlZ

Want to get started with #opendata? Join us on Friday Apri 28th from 10 am -12 pm at Good Coworking in Downtown Dallas for our in-person Introduction to Open Data course. It's "pay-what-you-can" so grab your laptop and come join us! buff.ly/3GJyqlZ #training

Great article on this important effort. Looking at the analytics challenge, I put together this piece mapping out the data work. Thinking with Data​: An Example from Flagstaff linkedin.com/pulse/thinking… via @LinkedIn

We are one week away from the next exciting #InnovateUS workshop, “Thinking with Data: Leveraging Analytics to Better Define and Solve Problems.” @Rdunks1 will discuss how to foster a data-driven mindset personally and in your organization. Register here form.jotform.com/223495386571163

The power of data

Mature leaders are patient with process.

Well after 8 months off, I'm finally dusting myself off and feeling ready to re-enter the real world 😆. I'd love to hear if you are working on interesting things and think I would be a good addition! My DMs are open, best to reach me there 📭

Really amazing story about what a culture shift in #localgov can do for a city, it's residents, and the businesses they depend on. I have to think the #publicsector workers win too when they have a job they can feel good doing governing.com/now/can-disney… via @GOVERNING

The first rule of building a horrible #localgov website is to ignore all the people telling you how you should make it better austinchronicle.com/news/2021-06-1… via @austinchronicle

Adversity is the engine of human ingenuity and ultimately our survival.

The data we spend so much money collecting and storing is useless if we don't first #startwithwhy. Why do we need it? Why is data important to our mission and values? #datadriven

@KansasCityEric @COPearland @DataKCMO @HoosierJuwils Hope it went well! Any key takeaways you're willing to share?

Sometimes @mikeloukides and I chat about the world. This time, we wrote it down. Please enjoy our take on how the pandemic is changing people's day-to-day lives and business activities: oreilly.com/radar/an-agent…

Interesting look at the attempts to understand why some cities thrive and others don't. My takeaway: there's no magic bullet but a concerted effort on all fronts to fight decay and despair in all its forms governing.com/assessments/Th… via @GOVERNING

So glad to have a collaborator to help make good ideas even better and encourage the flow of words to describe them.

Amazing @McChrystalGroup conversation on #publicsector #leadership between @micheleflournoy and @StanMcChrystal mcchrystalgroup.com/insights/no-tu…

What questions do you have about building data culture in the public sector? I’m talking Parks & Rec + DATA @fwd50conf with @leigh_tami18 and @Datapolitan on Monday fwd50.com/session/parks-…