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The city recently launched its Kensington Dashboard, which offers a comprehensive picture of the area through data, to inform residents and stakeholders about progress toward resolving its challenges. -
A new type of artificial intelligence is helping city governments spot problems like potholes faster and with more accuracy than ever before, but government must maintain traditional privacy standards.
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Northlake, located in North Texas, turned to Envisio dashboard technology to help manage capital planning. One of the town’s officials and an Envisio executive talk about the deployment and the future of dashboards.
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The police force of Durham, N.C., has teamed up with SAS Institute to create a data system that will put a spotlight on exemplary police work and reveal cases where officers may need training or counseling.
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A federal district court in southern California has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s collection of real-time trip data from shared mobility providers.
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Data from marginalized communities is often underreported, meaning their needs are hidden from policymakers. President Biden’s initial actions on equitable data pave a path for state and local governments to follow.
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Officials predict city budgets will be cut anywhere from 15 to 40 percent in the next year. The best way to do more with less is to use data as a tool to find out what works and where there’s opportunity to save.
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Fraud can cost government programs such as unemployment insurance millions. Two companies that help the public sector identify it, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Accuity, are merging their products and data together.
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The accounting, payroll and HR tech company sees its new offering as the future version of its current products. Here's Springbrook's plan for building up the solution and giving customers an easier path to the cloud.
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Plus, the Federal Chief Data Officers Council has launched a new website with an absolutely perfect URL, the U.S. Treasury tapes artificial intelligence to help parse spending bills faster and more.
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Urban SDK occupies the relatively competitive space of transportation and transit data analytics. The startup, which has an eye toward expanding beyond the public sector, has pulled in $1.7 million from investors.
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Plus, an open source tool tracks first 100 days in office for new Baltimore mayor; Baton Rouge, La., releases an open data policy report with plans for expansion, and Houston looks to hire a new CDO.
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The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is gaining new facial recognition technology called Simplified Arrival to speed up the process for international travelers passing through customs.
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Researchers collected survey and online data to tell the story of how the pandemic affected Boston’s diverse communities and how urban policymakers can use that information to navigate the path forward.
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Twitter is now expanding access to its archives for academic researchers. The move allows free access to public posts previously available to its premium customers.
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The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is leading a project to examine traffic data sets from across the Los Angeles region to develop new strategies to reduce traffic congestion.
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The city of Xenia, Ohio, has signed a $94,000 contract to map its vital infrastructure and create a comprehensive GIS platform. City leaders say the project will improve safety and efficiency in city operations.
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A parking study examining where and when truckers were parking at a Maryland rest area offered detailed data about when parking was unavailable. The data could improve management of freight trucks in the state.
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An updated air-quality monitoring app covering large swaths of Southern California is combining data streams from both government and crowd-sourced sensors to give readings at the neighborhood level.
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Public sector transit agencies are expected to continue their transition away from fossil fuel burning fleets, expanding the use of electric buses, despite setbacks by the COVID-19 crisis.
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While much of its clientele is in the national defense space, the SAP NS2-backed collaborative is hoping to make progress on other government problems such as cloud management and supply chain security in 2021.
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