OakX: The Data-Driven City Steve Spiker - Urban Strategies Council
1. Data Driven Cities:
An Oakland Experience
Steve Spiker (GISP)
Director of Research + Technology
Urban Strategies Council
@urbanstratoak @infoalameda @spjika
2. Urban Strategies Council…
A social impact organization.
25 years based in Oakland!
Social impact
Civic innovation
Applied research, data management and analysis.
www.urbanstrategies.org
3. Our Approach to Data
Define the problem/need
Review best practices, innovations elsewhereplan
Identify potential data sources- public, private,
scraped, MOUs
Clean, process, geocode data: add value
Perform analysis
Communicate results
Collect more data to evaluate the impact or success
(feedback loops)
4. Foreclosures
•Concerns raised by organizing partners
•Purchased data since 2006
•Analyze, publish maps/data for community/policy
5. Foreclosures
•Midway in crisis- no formal
response..
•Identify CLT as model to fit
•City registration policy-
doesn't stop foreclosures
10. Public Services Data
•211 insufficient: closed, outdated terminology
•www.alamedacountycan.org
•www.alamedareentryservices.org
•Build tools for web- need training and promo
•Next step: mobile tool for DPOs and teachers
•Each agency collects, manages, uses data independently-
huge duplication, massive differences.
•OPEN system for county/city
(Currently building an opensource resource directory tool)
11. InfoAlamedaCounty.org
•Data silos – gov and nonprofit
•High demand/low funding for data/map requests
•Web mapping and data viz to help people explore
and analyze
•Downloads of raw data and geographical to
empower other researchers, developers,
policymakers
12. InfoAlamedaCounty.org
•Web based mapping platform
•Data visualization
•Full export of all data!
•Platform for publishing research, data, maps
•Built in partnership with ACPHD
•Free- open to anyone
•viewer.infoalamedacounty.org
Urban Strategies Council works locally and regionally to provide research, data and policy analysis, strategic planning, program development, capacity building and advocacy in service of low-income communities of color.Our organization is a member of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, an alliance of advocates, organizations and individuals working together across the state to improve the life chances for California’s boys and young men of color.
Urban Strategies Council works locally and regionally to provide research, data and policy analysis, strategic planning, program development, capacity building and advocacy in service of low-income communities of color.Our organization is a member of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, an alliance of advocates, organizations and individuals working together across the state to improve the life chances for California’s boys and young men of color.
