Keynote: Building a Data Driven Dialogue From Filling Potholes to Disrupting the Cycle
summary
Shows concrete projects and results: a quick Snow Stats prototype and a Google Docs mayor dashboard surfaces 311 photo pipelines updating every 10 seconds; a Miami Dade analysis finds 97 people cost $13.7M over four years and drives $12M annual savings by shifting responses away from arrests; a 14‑week University of Chicago Data Science for Social Good project identifies ~200 frequent users at a quarter‑million intervention cost; a national initiative datadriven Justice grows to 119 jurisdictions covering 91 million people.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Meet the speaker
- 2:38Starting a data team
- 4:47Improving quality of life
- 7:42City dashboards reality
- 10:38Data-driven dialogue importance
- 11:20311 apps accountability
- 13:46Storytelling for action
- 14:48Local issues federal
- 16:36Wicked problems in government
- 18:01National level impact
- 20:11Jails mental health crisis
- 23:25Connecting jurisdictions
- 25:56Data Justice initiative
- 27:44Operationalizing data science
- 29:28Results implementation
- 30:53Collective action building
- 31:56LA ride-alongs models
- 32:40Federal hiring opportunities
- 33:23Data science roles
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