GovEx Data Points
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GovEx Data Points
A podcast about government and data. Telling stories from practitioners and academics about how data affects communities and the lives of residents.
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#104 - What’s Your AI IQ? How Cities Are Measuring and Making Progress
--- The AI Capacity Quiz is helping cities reflect, compare, and take confident steps forward
--- The GovEx team created the AI Capacity...
#103 - AI City Showcase: How Guatemala City is using AI to Combat Climate Change
--- The city developed its AI prototype as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance AI Track
--- As one of eight cities in...
Rewriting a Narrative: How El Paso’s mayor is using data to highlight the city’s promise
--- Mayor Renard Johnson’s participation in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative offers an example of the power of data storytelling.
City Spotlight: Recife leads a wave of Latin American AI innovation
--- With Conecta Recife and “zero-click” service delivery, the Brazilian tech hub is creating scalable solutions to address resident needs.
#100 - The Chief Data Officer: An Essential and Evolving Role in the Age of Generative AI
--- Miami CDO Cheriene Floyd shares how Generative AI is shifting the way cities think about their data.
--- A Chief Data Officer’s role...
#99 - Cities as Engines of Innovation: Insights from GovEx Executive Director Oliver Wise
--- Oliver Wise has been a data leader in local and federal government, as well as the private sector, and as GovEx’s new Executive Director, he’s bet...
#98 - Making Visions Reality: The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative
--- The innovation program that helps African leaders leverage data tools to achieve legacy goals
--- Today, we’re talking about the Afri...
#97 - Making Data Accessible: The BREATHE Center’s Lung Health Dashboard
--- How can data storytelling improve health outcomes and save lives? The Lung Health Dashboard offers one example.
--- Today’s episode e...
#96 - Equipping Staff to make Better Decisions: The JHU Travel Emissions Dashboard
--- According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounts for 28% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. For short trips, flying i...
#95 - The GovExperts: The "Squishier" Side of Data Use in Cities with Vidushani Jayalal
--- The GovExperts is a Data Points mini-series spotlighting the brilliant minds at GovEx who are shaping the future of public sector data work. Today...
#94 - The GovExperts: What Data-Driven Culture Means for Cities with Dr. Sara Bertran de Lis
--- The GovExperts is a Data Points mini-series spotlighting the brilliant minds at GovEx who are shaping the future of public sector data work. Today...
#93 - Communicating with Data: How Do Cities Measure Up?
--- How well do cities communicate with data? What opportunities are they missing?
--- GovEx Senior Research Manager Dr. Jacquie Greiff...
#92 - The GovExperts: The Power of Effective Instructional Design with Dr. Jessica Arends
--- The GovExperts is a Data Points mini-series spotlighting the brilliant minds at GovEx who are shaping the future of public sector data work. Today...
#91 - 2024: The Year Cities Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
--- Outgoing GovEx Executive Director Amy Edwards Holmes reflects on a momentous year for cities and data
--- While the characters in Dr....
#90 - Strengthening Community Food Systems: Resilience Strategies in Adams County, Colorado
--- In this episode of Data Points, GovEx’s Meg Burke sits down with Tessa Cushman, the Food Access and Systems Coordinator in Adams County, Colorado...
#89 - Co-creating Solutions for Economic Mobility: The Opportunity Accelerator
--- In partnership with Results for America, GovEx helps empower communities to solve problems.
--- In the latest episode of Data Points,...
#88 - The GovExperts: Potential of public sector AI with Andrew Nicklin
--- The GovExperts is the new mini-series from GovEx Data Points spotlighting some of the top minds in public sector data. In our inaugural episode we...
#87 - Increasing Access while Reducing Emissions: Iowa City’s Fare Free Pilot Program
Iowa City and GovEx collaborate to solve a problem: How do you gather ridership data without fares?
--- In the latest episode of the Data...
#86 - Celebrating 10 Years: Reflections on the DATA Act and the future of open data
--- GovEx Executive Director Amy Holmes introduces highlights from the organization’s recent event marking the DATA Act’s 10th anniversary
#85 - Teaching Mayors to Tap Data’s “Sneaky Super Power”: Bringing People Together
--- The Data Track at Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative helps leaders to the see the people behind city-level data.
--- Today,...
#84 - Women’s History Now: The Women Behind the Coronavirus Resource Center
--- In this episode, we celebrate Women’s History Month by talking to some of the women who made history by leading the development of the Coronavirus...
#83 - City AI Connect: Risk vs. Opportunity in Government AI
--- In this episode, we discuss City AI Connect, a global learning community and digital platform for cities to trial and advance the usage of generat...
#82 - A Year In Review: A conversation with GovEx Executive Director Amy Edwards Holmes on her first year of leadership
In the latest Data Points Podcast from the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (“GovEx”), GovEx Chief of Staff Dr....
#81 - Democratizing Data in City Workforces: A conversation with Baltimore Chief Data Officer Justin Elszasz
In the latest Data Points podcast from the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx), GovEx Research Manager Jacq...
#80 - Food System Resilience: A Planning Guide for Local Governments
Among the lessons many cities learned from the COVID-19 pandemic was that local governments need to be better prepared for disruptions to the food sys...
#79 - The Charge to Invest in Intersectional Culture Change in Cities
The past several years have revealed a major shift in the way we relate to our jobs, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing political and ci...
#78 - It Takes a Village: The Value of Place-Based Partnerships in Racine, WI
Place-based partnerships can serve a major role in supporting governments’ commitment to serving and improving the lives of residents. But partnership...
#77 - Public Health Data Lessons Learned: The Pandemic Data Initiative
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how unprepared our public data reporting practices were to handle such an event. Incomplete, poorly-formatted, or irreg...
#76 - From the “Start” of Innovation to a New Center for Innovation – A Conversation with Amanda Daflos
Innovation is about solving problems. Every problem and crisis a city encounters can unlock new opportunities to innovate and create better results fo...
#75 - “Did you get my email?”: A conversation on collaboration
When tackling society’s big challenges, we often find ourselves collaborating with other departments or organizations external to our own. But as any...
#74 - Data Science: Easy as P.I.E.
Governments are often on the hook for some of society’s most pressing challenges. How can city leaders find novel and flexible solutions to address th...
#73 - Saving for the Future with Lansing SAVE
How can cities and their partners help families start saving money for their children’s future college or career training expenses? Since 2013, Lansin...
# 72 - Framing Results with the Results Framework
Accountable, transparent government is something we all strive for in public service. But how do we make this aspiration a reality? It's not enough to...
#71 - A Year in Review: The Economic Mobility Policy Forum
Today, we're joined by the Economic Mobility Forum's Policy Fellows as they wrap up a year of research and discussion at the Johns Hopkins University...
#70 - Forging Ahead Despite COVID-19
The disruptive effects of COVID-19 were widespread, but that didn't prevent the City of Paterson, NJ from moving forward on mayoral priorities. Today,...
#69 - COMIT: A Maternal Vaccination Policy Tracker by JHU
Is it safe for pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19? What if they're breast feeding? The answer, it turns out, is hard to find, and it de...
Data Points Episode #68 - The eSchools+ Initiative
Today, we're joined by the creators of the eSchools+ Initiative, a program designed to address inequity caused by school closures through connecting p...
Data Points Episode #67 - Love Your Block in Lancaster, PA
In today’s episode, we’ll discuss the Love Your Block program in the City of Lancaster. Love Your Block is a Cities of Service initiative that connect...
Data Points Episode #66 - Baltimore's CleanStat Initiative
In today's episode, we discuss our engagement with the City of Baltimore and its CleanStat program. We'll also look at how the city relied on this ini...
Data Points Episode #65 - Knowledge Management in City Government
We know that collecting and analyzing data generates insights. But how can we transform those moments of insight into enduring knowledge that guides t...