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Big Apple polishes data operations
October 27, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsNew York City’s Office of Technology and Innovation will train staff to leverage data to inform decision-making and enhance city services and programs.
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City’s custom-built app scores homeless encampment safety
October 26, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsWith the Homeless Emergency Management Tracking and Prioritization Tool, Austin gets consistent health, safety and impact data on encampments citywide to support cross-departmental intervention.
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Street-level imagery makes data collection a snap
| News, Data & AnalyticsCameras, LiDAR, algorithms and cloud databases make it possible for state and local governments to convert imagery into insights.
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Maryland to build weather data network
| News, Data & AnalyticsThe Maryland Mesonet will provide real-time monitoring that will improve responses to weather-related disasters.
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States opting out of a federal program that tracks teen behavior as youth mental health worsens
| News, Data & AnalyticsWhen states do not participate in Youth Risk Behavior surveys, it makes it difficult to track conditions or signals of poor mental health in adolescents, experts say.
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Drug data center takes on opioid crisis
October 19, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsThe Southeast Regional Drug Data Research Center will streamline data sharing across federal and state agencies and enable multidisciplinary research to respond to the opioid epidemic.
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Why community health centers are betting on data collection to advance health equity
| News, Data & AnalyticsBy collecting accurate data, local health centers can identify the needs in their communities, deploy resources where most needed and analyze the results to better inform care.
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Cyber talent still in high demand
| News, Data & AnalyticsIn the last 12 months, more than 769,000 cyber job postings went up in the United States.
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Cities and states bristle over proposal to change how they report on finances
October 18, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsCongress is weighing a plan that calls for overhauling how state and local government financial data is made public, stirring worries about new costs for software and staff. But supporters of the revamp say it’s long overdue.
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What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant
October 17, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsLaw enforcement use of Fog Reveal puts a spotlight on that loophole between U.S. data privacy law and electronic surveillance law.