Projects

Workshops focused on building critical data literacy

Addressing threats to displacement by proactively informing affordable housing preservation efforts

Community-partnered research and advocacy focused on child health equity

Mapping the invisible public health infrastructure that emerged during the height of the pandemic.

Developing a shared data strategy for regional digital equity efforts

A catalog of community partnerships involving the University of Pittsburgh faculty, staff, and students

Informing local efforts to manage climate change and effects of pollution

Informing land conservation actions in Allegheny County

Creating a new infrastructure for data and power sharing

View and download integrated parcel data

Strengthening the CKAN open data ecosystem

Building participatory data governance and new models for community uses of data

Worked with local foundations and organizations to understand needs and compile local public data to create community data snapshots for the respective service regions.

Working with young people to better understand workforce development landscape

Civic Switchboard is an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems.

EMBRACE, First Steps and Beyond, and The Pittsburgh Study

A new way of protecting privacy for local data