Posts tagged Data Openness
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DCPS releases more helpful budget information
On Friday DCPS released its initial budget allocations for the 2014 school year. This year’s budget includes more information to help average parents and residents better understand the budget. Easy-to-digest breakouts for individual schools show how DCPS is allocating funds among administrators, classroom teachers, special education, arts, and more. They show… Keep reading…
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How school tiers match up with Walk Score
One of the best effects of open data is when people correlate data sets from very different places to generate interesting information. This graph cleverly combines DC’s school quality tiers (known as “accountability categories”) with Walk Score: Keep reading…
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Is pre-K in DC working?
DC has made a major commitment to pre-kindergarten education. Are these programs improving kids’ performance in the rest of their education? Based on information available so far, we don’t know for sure. We do know that a pre-K program has to be high quality to make a difference, and some do better than others. In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed… Keep reading…
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Community of civic hackers for education takes shape
With so many school options, applications, and lotteries, there is a dire need for information that will help parents make the best choices for their children. Code for DC’s DC School Decisions project aims to use data and develop code that helps DC parents and students better navigate school lotteries and decisions. The two of us started the volunteer-run project in late… Keep reading…
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Another great Capital Bikeshare visualization
Starting at 12:06, Greater Greater Washington contributor Veronica Davis, WABA head Shane Farthing, and Arlington bike planner Chris Eatough will talk about bicycling in DC on the Kojo Nnamdi Show. Listen live or catch the archived audio once it’s posted this afternoon. They also posted this video which visualizes a few days of Capital Bikeshare trips:… Keep reading…
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Visualize the DC budget
At the recent International Open Data Hackathon, Justin Grimes put the DC budget into a “treemap,” a chart that shows a lot of items as rectangles of different sizes. This makes it very easy to understand how much money is going to different functions. Keep reading…
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Open data can help families with confusing school choices
Educating children in DC’s publicly-funded schools can feel like a roller coaster ride for parents who have to sort through myriad educational options. DC can ease this task by making more information freely available and encouraging people to develop more useful tools that help parents make sense of it all. DC provides a menu of options from a growing diversity of programming… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where real estate’s hot or not
Poplar Point for FBI?; Building in Ballston; Howard makes dough from real estate; Upper I-270 not so hot; Transportation plan reactions; Cyclist’s life worth $140?; Good things come from bag fees; Graham under fire; 3 neat apps; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA might offer open data for all regional transit
WMATA planners helped STLTransit create an animation of transit across the entire Washington region. That’s possible because WMATA has a single data file with all regional agencies’ schedules. They hope to make that file public; that would fuel even more tools that aid the entire region. Keep reading…
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Weekend bonus links: West coast, east coast
“War on cars” fake in Seattle; What might have been in LA; David, elsewhere; McDonnell fails Freakonomics; Leggett says he’s for Bethesda entrance; Cubic buys NextBus; And…. Keep reading…