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Community Indicators

http://www.communityindicators.blogspot.com/

Enhancing the art and science of community indicators and building a network of interested people.

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  • Health Indicator Trendlines

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 05:11 in , indicators humor

    From XKCD via the Bacon Salt Blog:OK, so I like the idea of telling a story with a graph. And I like bacon. And I thought this was funny. And I am trying to justify putting this picture on a community indicators blog. Any help here? ...

  • Audio Conference: Performance Reporting

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 05:00 in , government performance measures

    From the July 23, 2008 • AGA Education News:Everything You Wanted To Know About Performance Reporting, But Were Afraid To Ask! Aug. 20 Audio ConferenceAGA, in conjunction with the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers ...

  • Don't We Drive More Than We Walk?

    Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 05:01 in

    When I posted the follow-up article on Walk Score, an alert reader pointed me to Drive Score. This site allows you to enter an address and get a score based on the number of businesses within drivable range. (Since I just proved that South Dakota is ...

  • Quantifying Racism in Cities

    Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 05:00 in

    The Freakonomics blog has a provocative article asking What is the most racist city in America? The author of the article, Sudhir Venkatesh, asks for input on "quantifying racism" and suggests a "racism index" might allow someone to identify which ci...

  • Two Reports Released by NNIP

    Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 07:34 in , neighborhood indicators

    Here's a head's-up from Tom Kingsley on the NNIP Listserve:Two reports have recently been released describing innovative local uses of parcel level data in community development. Most of the examples were done by partners in the National Neighborhood...

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