Know Your Community: Data Power to the People
summary
City of LA turns open datasets into a neighborhood toolkit: a live Know Your Community portal built on GeoHub and data.lacity (over 1,000 datasets, 40M page views, 1.7M downloads) that feeds web apps — a community window, printable demographic explorer, 3-1-1 viewer, Streetwise and CleanStat. Teams built ETL pipelines and ESRI story maps over months, partnered with sanitation and neighborhood councils (99 NCs), census outreach used the reports, and the platform is live but still tracking user metrics and iterating.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:05About the speaker and platform
- 3:57City data for community insights
- 8:13Neighborhood councils and data literacy
- 12:08Developing the Know Your Community platform
- 16:21Platform features and web apps
- 25:09Platform use and community advocacy
- 26:32Q&A session
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