2000115-Strengthening-Communities-with-Neighborhood-Data

428 Index
data (continued)
oversight of government operations
and, 49
quality and accessibility of, changes
in, 73
school attendance, mining for causes of
chronic absence, 266–267
spatial, 376–377
strengthening communities and role
of: review, 152–163, 166–177
data analysis, efficient government and, 41
data analysts, 49
data assembly, by local data intermediaries,
29, 30
database tools, 124
data capacity, expanding in local
communities, payoff with, 409
data centers, reconfiguration of, 49
Data Collaborative (Detroit), 92
data collection and aggregation, specifying
units for, 288
data-driven action coalitions, 224–227
data-driven decisionmaking
educating future policymakers, 401,
404–405
explicit support for, 406
Data Driven Detroit, 92
data-driven performance programs, 50–52
DataFinder (Twin Cities), 60
data for neighborhood indicators, 74–101
data standards, 100–101
federal government data, 74, 82–85
household surveys, 95–96
neighborhood scores and metrics, 96–98
new types of, 98–99
observational surveys, 94–95
open-government data, 98
primary data sources, 93–96
proprietary data, 91–93
secondary data sources, 74–93
state and local government data, 85–86,
89–91
data.gov, 98, 104
DataKind, 108, 391
data layers, brownfields properties and, 44
data literacy, promoting, 132
data mining, 311
DataPlace website, 103
data portals
commercial portals, 105–106
delivery, visualization, and analysis
with, 102–107
government portals, 105–106
nonprofit portals, 102–105
data processing tools, simplifying,
130–131
data quality, increasing, 129
Data Quality Campaign, 21, 88
data scientists, 49
data sharing
local government agencies, 16
privacy and security concerns, 53
data sharing in the Twin Cities
(Minnesota), 57–70
intermediaries, 61–68
local emergence, 60–61
overview, 57–58
remaining barriers, 69–70
state initiatives, 58–60
trends in applications, 68–69
data sparseness, addressing, 287, 291–292
data standards
geographic information systems and, 43
neighborhood indicators and, 98–99
data transformation
expanding, 401, 404
by local data intermediaries, 29, 30–31
Davis, Sandra, 45
DBF documents, 121
Decennial Censuses, 20, 74, 75, 80, 82, 83,
90, 96, 104
decisionmaking
data-driven, 146
indicators and, 135–147
delinquency, distressed, disinvested
neighborhoods and, 6
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central
Texas, 231
democracy
citizen participation between elections
in, 18
as problem solving, 19