Fellowship Spotlight- Lexington

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City of Lexington 2014 Fellows Lyzi Diamond and Jonathan Hollinger discuss what became possible when they joined datasets already held by the City to create a richer, fuller picture of a specific place. Watch the video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh-cpTGCuTQ&list=PL65XgbSILalWFStqV0z0N9pvftstJ8AAh&index=25 Get involved with Code for America: www.codeforamerica.org/action

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LYZI DIAMOND GIS Analyst 2014 Code for America Fellow !JONATHAN HOLLINGER Administrative Officer Senior Department of Planning Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government !

Geocode your city with open data

VISION ACROSS (DATASET) BOUNDARIES

Erik Schwartz Lyzi Diamond Livien YinSoftware engineer GIS analyst Visual designer

Lexingteam City Partners Shaye Rabold Jamie Emmons Derek Paulsen Jonathan H. Chris Corcoran Aldona Valicenti Chad Cottle Brittany West

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Lexington Neighborhoods

Meet State Street

Neighborhood health?

So many ideas! neighborhood information management system, data visualization dashboard, city services notifications, it goes on…

hold your horses!

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How can these datasets talk to each other?

“It is not uncommon to spend 75% of one’s time locating, downloading, cleaning, and standardizing the relevant datasets – leaving precious little resources for the important work.”

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–Plenar.io

the common thread

streetscope.net

standardize the addresses

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couch burnings

foreclosures

code violations

identify problem areas

Streetscope

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these insights are at your fingertips

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inexpensive modernization

past data

future data

streetscope

rich portrait

LYZI DIAMOND GIS Analyst 2014 Code for America Fellow !JONATHAN HOLLINGER Administrative Officer Senior Department of Planning Lexington, Kentucky !

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