I’m a part of a team that is taking public data for the City of Albany, analyzing it, and turning the analysis into stories that inform our community. We publish this analysis and stories on the website, Albany Data Stories. These data-driven stories address housing, budgets, crime, pedestrian safety and more.
We are speaking about public data to WAMC’s listeners because we believe that public data promotes citizen engagement and an appreciation of our government, improving transparency and accountability.
Our objective is to provide examples of how citizen-led public data research works – how is it possible to take public data and turn it into insight that informs citizens and impacts policy? Let’s walk through an example of our public data analysis…