Data & Analytics

Mobile apps help community with annual homeless count

Kansas City and Houston are using mobile apps to more accurately conduct their point in time homelessness counts.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Data management's role in sustaining digital transformation

As agencies move from the research to implementation phase of their digital transformations, federal data experts say intelligent data management is crucial to better leverage and protect critical data.

  • By Chris Riotta

Agencies have 5 years to hire nearly 600,000 workers. Here’s how they can do it.

By reducing application redundancies, streamlining hiring and onboarding and increasing cross-agency data sharing, federal agencies can transform the hiring process to meet current and future needs.

  • By Heather Whitlock, Adobe

Sparse eviction data challenges Wyoming's rental assistance programs

A records management system upgrade that paused eviction data collection may have contributed to ignorance about the scope of the state's housing problems.

  • By Susan Miller

Can AI-powered congestion pricing improve transportation equity?

New research suggests big data and machine learning can create an equitable approach to tolling and improve traffic congestion.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Census 2020 gets its first challenges

Some cities and municipalities are pushing the Census Bureau to correct population counts they say are too low.

  • By Tim Henderson, Stateline

Las Vegas taps digital twin for sustainability

With a digital twin, the city can leverage street-level data collected through IoT sensors to model future energy use, emissions, mobility and emergency management.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

A Shift Away from Daily COVID Case Counts Has Begun

Public health officials are considering a shift from increasingly inaccurate case data to numbers they say better represent the effect of the disease on the community and the health care system: hospitalizations and deaths.

  • By Christine Vestal, Stateline

Tennessee taps evidence-based budgeting for funding decisions

Using clearinghouse data, an evidence framework and internal analytic tools, the state's Office of Evidence and Impact evaluates programs to help decision-makers see whether more funding is warranted.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

How to balance self-service analytics and security

Agencies need an an easy way for employees to access data while balancing ongoing privacy and security concerns.

  • By Rick “Ozzie” Nelson

GIS enlisted for equity and social justice analysis

Esri's Social Equity Analysis tool allows equity analysts to combine smart maps and community data to assess local conditions, evaluate decision-making scenarios and measure progress toward equity goals.

  • By GCN Staff

Census recounts fail to account for COVID chaos, cities say

Communities that believe pandemic-related chaos made it impossible for census workers to get an accurate count of their populations may have trouble qualifying for a recount and miss out on state and federal funding.

  • By Tim Henderson, Stateline

Ohio launches platform to match foster children with families

Using a specialized search engine and a family tree building tool, social workers will be able to connect foster children to extended family members.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Cincinnati maps food insecurity gaps

Building off of its emergency food delivery response at the height of the pandemic, the city is now using the same tools to tackle the long-term issue of food insecurity.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee
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As reliance on data analytics grows, agencies look to talent, automation

The amount of data state and local governments collect is growing faster than their ability to create meaningful information from it.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Climate data tools win NOAA challenge

The four winning teams developed digital tools designed to help local decision makers use federal data for better climate resilience planning.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

White House elevates CX with executive order

A Biden administration executive order looks to use tech to simplify and reduce friction in citizen interactions with government programs and services.

  • By Natalie Alms

Michigan posts statewide dashboard for COVID-19 wastewater monitoring

The dashboard provides detailed, weekly analysis and interpretation of wastewater data and trends, providing public health officials early warning of COVID infection.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

NOAA mapping tool projects county-level climate risks

Understanding a particular area’s vulnerability to events like wildfires, floods, drought and heat waves, tornado outbreaks and hurricanes can have massive benefits to emergency planner.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

How government can use better outreach to aid constituents

Government organizations need quantitative information and insights to roll out compelling, sustainable outreach campaigns that speak loudly and clearly to the people that most need to hear the messages they’re sharing.

  • By Clare Epstein

Cities enlist sensors to tackle noise pollution

New York and Philadelphia hope cameras, decibel meters and machine learning can help reduce excessive noise.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee