Blog Posts

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 community organizations, learn new data tools through worksh...

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 to using property and housing data. For the first time, we also took advantage of an opportunity to ...

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. The design of our previous Website did not enable our users to easily discover the ne...

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 for cities anywhere. TDE Playbook: Data User Gr...

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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/...

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, informal user tests, and performance management statist...

https://blogs.microsoft.com/newyork/2017/08/01/fulfilling-the-promise-of-open-data-through-data-literacy-training/...

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 information, a direct line to employment opportunities and services, and a tool for communi...

Last week, three members of our team (Liz Monk, Steve Saylor, and Bob Gradeck) travelled to Baltimore, Maryland for the Spring, 2017 partner meeting of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP). 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 dat...