As Federal Data Disappears, New Tool Gives Power to Cities

In 2014, Mayor Gary Phillips of San Rafael, California, wanted to start studying the city’s data. He asked his staff to build a dashboard where he could track 10 key metrics, including the city’s violent-crime rate, its sales-tax income, and its paramedic response times, and see how they fluctuated over time. In theory, it was …

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