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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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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
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?
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
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
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...

