OakX:Data+The Power of Storytelling Steve Spiker/Urban Strategies Council
1. Storytelling with Data
Steve Spiker (GISP)
Director of Research + Technology
Urban Strategies Council
@urbanstratoak @infoalameda @spjika
2. Urban Strategies Council…
A social impact organization.
25 years based in Oakland!
Social impact
Civic innovation
Applied research, data management and analysis.
www.urbanstrategies.org
3. Our Approach to Data
Define the problem/need
Review best practices, innovations elsewhereplan
Identify potential data sources- public, private,
scraped, MOUs
Clean, process, geocode data: add value
Perform analysis
Communicate results
Collect more data to evaluate the impact or success
(feedback loops)
4. Stories?
Narrative
Require telling
Require an audience
Are social!
Need meaning
Convey meaning- and assume values
They go somewhere- destinations
5. Data?
Broad, static, cold
Lack context
Lack meaning
Easily confused or misused
Never run dry, never get used up
19. InfoAlamedaCounty.org
“tell your own story”
•Web based mapping platform
•Data visualization
•Full export of all data!
•Platform for publishing research, data, maps
•Free- open to anyone
•viewer.infoalamedacounty.org
Urban Strategies Council works locally and regionally to provide research, data and policy analysis, strategic planning, program development, capacity building and advocacy in service of low-income communities of color.Our organization is a member of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, an alliance of advocates, organizations and individuals working together across the state to improve the life chances for California’s boys and young men of color.
Urban Strategies Council works locally and regionally to provide research, data and policy analysis, strategic planning, program development, capacity building and advocacy in service of low-income communities of color.Our organization is a member of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, an alliance of advocates, organizations and individuals working together across the state to improve the life chances for California’s boys and young men of color.