Analytics

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.

Law enforcement has invested time and money in technologies like digital forensics and drones, but using analytics to quantify community feedback could help with recruitment, retention and public trust.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has been making targeted improvements for several years by homing in on several key metrics, to grow its service and yield shorter travel times.

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.

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.

A coalition of 17 states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the new mandate, arguing it imposes onerous reporting demands and requests data that universities may not be compelled to expose due to student safety.

As jobs, skills and industries evolve faster than ever, state-led data systems are demonstrating how to deliver timely, actionable insights that connect workers with the skills employers actually need.

Federal agencies are requesting access to state and local government data for immigration enforcement purposes. Some experts argue this could impact public trust, but protections can be implemented.

The myAurora 311 Open Data Portal gives residents a detailed look at the city's non-emergency call traffic, service trends and response, and is part of a broader push to make city operations more transparent.

A proposed amendment to the Michigan Constitution would force state universities to follow local zoning ordinances and go through public processes before beginning construction on a data center.

In Singapore’s IT department, innovation comes not only from in-house technical expertise, but through pushing those skills out to the rest of the enterprise and supporting innovation nationally.

The Department of Information Resources Governing Board has passed rule changes expected to guide how state agencies handle AI oversight, data governance assessments and digital accessibility.

Elizabeth Crowe, the city’s director of urban analytics and innovation, has been selected to serve as interim chief innovation and technology officer, a role formerly held by Stephanie Wernet.

Ranchbot’s sensors use satellite technology to monitor tank levels, trends and operation, enabling customers to check water data on their phones or computers in real time.

Windsor, Conn., is turning off cameras that take photos of license plates, citing a list of concerns that includes federal agencies previously accessing the data in an effort to enforce immigration laws.

A new partnership is endowing state transportation departments in Ohio and Pennsylvania with multiple data points through which to better understand traffic on their roadways and corridors.

Having realized efficiencies through their use of a technology project management platform, city officials are contemplating where else it might bring transparency, save time and accomplish routine tasks.

A new center at the University of Texas at Arlington will focus on space simulation, space instrumentation, astrophysics, data science, aerospace engineering and physics education.