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Data Visualization: How to Show, not Tell

GovLoop

Agencies generate and analyze a lot of data these days. We talked to three employees at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Development Department(CDD) about how they use visualization to help data fulfill its purpose. That’s where data visualization comes in. One is when] you’ve got a lot of data.

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The Value of Design-led Thinking

GovLoop

It cares about what a user said and how they said it, and about demographics and accessibility. It cares about what a user said and how they said it, and about demographics and accessibility. These are best practices for creating items such as “click here” buttons, search boxes, page headers, and other visual and functional tools.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Geospatial data, including many climate and weather datasets, are often released by government and nonprofit organizations in compressed file formats such as the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) or GRIdded Binary (GRIB). Over the years, a number of file formats have been devised to store this type of data.

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The SMART Approach to Writing Your Proposal

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Funders base their decision on granting funds to the applicants that tell a compelling story through the written proposal that matches the funders focus area. How can you make the most of the readers’ first 20 seconds to grab their attention? Know the data. Back up the need(s) with clear data. So what do you say?

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Budgeting Is a Collaborative Effort

GovLoop

How often do you think about the water you fill your coffeemaker with each morning, the street you drive your children to public school on or what happens after you drag the trash bin to the curb? That’s important to show constituents you are working to meet their expectations. The software also serves as a platform for collaboration.

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Generating program-defining insights in seconds for child, adult, senior, and military services

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Shahirah Mahmood, PhD, director of data management, measurement, and outcomes at Easterseals, DC MD VA. From data silos to strategic insights in seconds with AWS. The principal challenge Easterseals faced before implementing AWS solutions was siloed data.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). How the Daylight Map supports OSM queries Every day, OSM receives millions of contributions from the community. million individual contributors.