Last month, I attended the Spring, 2018 partner meeting of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) in Atlanta, Georgia. NNIP is a network of practice for community data intermediaries managed by the Urban Institute. NNIP partners in over 30 cities collect and transform neighborhood data, promote the use of data, and use information to improve […]
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How to Recruit Leaders to Tackle Urban Civic Hacking
Guest blog by Justin Cole, Founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Students for Urban Data Systems Back in August 2015, a group of Carnegie Mellon students came together in Pittsburgh to create Students for Urban Data Systems (SUDS). SUDS provided a space for students and community members to come together and work on data projects with […]
Property Data User Meeting Recap, January 2018
We were joined by over 35 people for our third property data user group meeting on the morning of January 25th at the East Liberty Carnegie Library. These meetings provide us both with an opportunity to share our progress, but they also enable us to hear what our users are looking for when it comes […]
2017 Year in Review
Here’s a look back at 2017. It has been great to work with so many great partners, and look forward to helping you find and use data in 2018. New Website Experience Goes Live In 2017, the Regional Data Center expanded our products and services to include data guides, tools, events, and our bi-weekly newsletter. […]
Tactical Data Engagement Playbook on our Data User Groups was published by the Sunlight Foundation
The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center has been hosting data user group meetings since 2015, when we first brought together data users around environmental justice. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about how to make these meetings and followup activities effective, efficient, and fun. We’re excited to share many of those lessons in a new guide […]
Pittsburgh’s Data Day: Using Civic Data to Spark Hands-on Community Engagement (Published by Living Cities)
This post was published by Living Cities on their Website.
Do you know how your Open Data is being used? (guest blog published by CKAN)
Please follow this link to read the post on ckan.org. https://ckan.org/2017/09/19/do-you-know-how-your-open-data-is-being-used/
How We Designed Our New Website
Back in the summer of 2015, we developed our initial website in anticipation of the launch of the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal and project website. Our initial site design enabled people to search for data they could download, and learn more about our programs and services. Through conversations with our users, […]
Fulfilling the Promise of Open Data through Data Literacy Training (guest blog published by Microsoft)
Fulfilling the Promise of Open Data through Data Literacy Training
Visualizing Internet Coverage in Pittsburgh
When you move into a new home, or change your address, the first wave of mail you receive usually includes offers from internet providers. The choice of providers — if you have the means, or even have the choice to begin with— is an increasingly important one; the internet has become an essential pathway to […]