A Few Good Public Servants: How Great Analysis Inspires Action
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Stories report concrete outcomes: a Building Intelligence System for firefighters, a mayor's dashboard that executives use daily, deployment of an analytic SWAT team for the Legionnaires outbreak, and municipal recognition via local law 2 to 2 embedding the office into the city charter. Numbers surprise: 64% with mental illness 68% with substance use 44% chronic health among jailed populations and per‑person system costs cited near $250,000. NYC publishes 2,600 open datasets and a 10 million parking‑violation table.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Opening exercise
- 1:27Introduction
- 5:30Public policy curb ramps
- 7:59Government analytics beyond code
- 12:14Boston data team fire safety tool
- 15:29Transition to White House
- 17:57Criminal justice reform
- 24:19New York City analytics team
- 28:17Local government data framework
- 32:55Mayor’s data analytics achievements
- 36:48Open data and squirrels
- 38:57Closing thoughts
