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Special thanks to Adena Bowden for co-authoring this post. This past Friday (October 28, 2022), we continued our twelve-week virtual data literacy series, “Data Literacy for Data Stewards,” with a conversation about stigmatization in data. Our goals for the workshop were to learn about the impacts of territorial stigmatization, and work together to create practices we can […]

Thanks for Adena Bowden for co-authoring this post.   Last Friday (October 21, 2022), we continued our twelve-week virtual data literacy series, “Data Literacy for Data Stewards,” with a discussion on data divides and missing data. Our objectives for the workshop included: understanding why data is missing and the power inherent in decisions on what is captured […]

Special thanks to Adena Bowden for co-authoring this post. On Friday (October 14, 2022), we kicked off the initial cohort of our new twelve-week virtual data literacy series, “Data Literacy for Data Stewards.” We created this series because we know that more and more people that we work with are seeing the harms, challenges, and […]

Funding provided through the National Science Foundation’s “Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems” Program will be used to develop a plan to strengthen the CKAN ecosystem Transparency is a necessary element enabling people to hold their leaders accountable, and is essential if governments hope to build trust with the public. Since 2006, CKAN has been a critical resource enabling […]

Introduction Allegheny County recently made two notable datasets related to health available as open data. Allegheny County is able to access data through the Pennsylvania Vital Statistics Database. The Commonwealth’s Department of Health collects data on births and deaths by place of residence for all of these events in Pennsylvania.  Births occurring over a five-year period […]

Introduction We’ve been asked to create measures of communities that are “walkable” for several projects. While we acknowledge that there is no standard definition of what makes a community “walkable,” and the definition of “walkability” can differ from person to person, we thought developing an indicator that explores the total length of available sidewalks and […]

We’re now into the 22nd month of the pandemic, and it is becoming more-common for people to have experienced multiple COVID-19 infections. The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) recently made some changes to the data feed provided to the Allegheny County Health Department making it possible to identify characteristics of people experiencing a COVID-19 infection.  […]

Air pollution in Pittsburgh has come a long way since the days when smoke could blot out the midday sun. Yet for many in the region, clean air remains a concern. Following the Christmas Eve fire at Clairton Coke works, the Allegheny County Health Department approached CountyStat about developing a new dashboard to make the […]