Beyond open data

How we’re going beyond government mandates to provide truly open data.

Q&A with our summer intern

Our intern has made numerous contributions during his time with us. In this post, he discusses the projects he has been working on and takeaways from his experience.

Making open data useful

We design our open data site with users. It's not enough to publish the data; our goal is publish the right data, in the right way, to make it as useful as possible.

Mapping revenue data by county

We've been exploring options for the geographic representation of revenue data. In this post, we explore the variability in revenue data by county (with Python) and produce a choropleth map (with D3.js).

Teaching digital skills: learning usability testing by peer training

Our user experience designer has been running the usability testing process from recruiting participants to building prototypes – by herself. We decided it would be helpful to peer-train two of our program analysts to conduct usability testing. In this post, we share the training process and what we learned.