Data science, apps and civic responsibility
summary
Panel shows concrete projects and numbers: a federal Commerce Data Service pushes bureaus to open data; Civis Analytics builds models that revealed some college‑savings plans function as tax shelters and helped a state treasurer redesign outreach; a Baltimore analysis merges ACS with school suspension and incarceration data to expose a school-to-prison pipeline for minority girls; Brigade’s app structures agree/disagree debates to map voter alignment. CitySDK middleware and calls for private‑public sharing of near‑real‑time economic and elected‑official data aim to fix gaps across ~85,000 local governments.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50The Commerce Data Service
- 3:07Brigade
- 3:53Challenge and opportunities
- 6:17US Census Bureau
- 7:08Underinvestment
- 8:27Open data
- 10:34Real world examples
- 11:42Civic engagement
- 13:30Availability of data
- 16:50Private public partners
- 17:52Trump phenomena
- 20:32Trends
- 22:07Advice for entrepreneurs
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