The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (DCWS) uses probability sampling to create highly-reliable local information that is not available from any other public data source. The DCWS traces its origins to a series of locally-based efforts conducted over the past two decades to gather information about well-being in Connecticut neighborhoods.
An audience of 178 housing experts, government analysts, nonprofit leaders and others gathered for the second annual Charlotte Data Day. The day-long event, hosted by the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Charlotte Branch in partnership with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, included presentations and workshops focused on local, state and national housing data.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
December 2014
The Pittsburgh Regional Data Center will provide an open data platform for our partners in local government and community organizations across the region. The Data Center will also provide an array of services to both data publishers and data users.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
October 15, 2015
University of Pittsburgh Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Chief of Staff Kathy Humphrey, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and City of Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto announced the launch of the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center.
Data Driven Detroit (D3) (Detroit) (Inactive) Thoughtwell (Columbus) Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland) Metropolitan Area Planning Council (Boston)
Thanks to IndyVitals – an award-winning online data tool – residents and organizations can actively contribute to continued planning to achieve Marion County’s vision for 2020. The NNIP Partner, the Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, leveraged their years of experience in providing actionable data through their Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators (SAVI) to create this new resource for the county.
Pittsburgh NNIP partner, the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, is part of a committed team bringing participatory data governance to the City of Pittsburgh. The...
IMS is working with the City of Milwaukie to write a Housing Affordability Strategy. It will serve as an overarching framework, combining existing land use inventory,...
In early 2016 a group of data professionals, along with numerous consumers of data from philanthropy, local governments, and nonprofits, came together to assess where the San Antonio region stood in their collective ability to use data to drive actions and decisions. They envisioned what local “data nirvana” would look like and talked about what it would take to get there.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
April 2018
IMS director Sheila Martin has joined the board of the Innovation Quadrant (IQ) and is developing a data strategy to measure its impact, both within and outside the geographic boundaries of the IQ.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
April 2018
IMS is working with the City of Milwaukie to write a Housing Affordability Strategy. It will serve as an overarching framework, combining existing land use inventory, needs assessments, and housing policy analysis with additional research. Among other measures, Milwaukie is pursuing code changes that would expand the range of permissible housing types.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
August 2023
Pittsburgh NNIP partner, the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, is part of a committed team bringing participatory data governance to the City of Pittsburgh. The Black Equity Coalition (BEC) recently received a grant from the de Beaumont Foundation’s Modernized Anti-Racist Data Ecosystems (MADE) funding program to establish a promising partnership with the City. The goal of the Data Justice for Pittsburgh’s Black Neighborhoods initiative is to ensure that members of the Black community have a meaningful participatory role in the design of public data systems.