Archive for May, 2011
2010 Update to Community Report Card
Last week at Community Data 2.0, SCOPE shared a “2010 Update” to the Community Report Card — a subset of indicators with data extending to 2010. The update includes the latest Sarasota County demographics (total population, age, race / ethnicity) & 25 indicators of community well-being across 9 domains (civic, culture/recreation, economic, health, learning, natural environment, [...]
Community Data 2.0 Playlist
Every major gathering deserves a soundtrack. Here are the songs that have been proposed and requested so far, as part of the playlist for Community Data 2.0. Which are your favorites, and what are other songs you want to request? Let us know by replying to this blog post!
Changes - David Bowie
Change the World - [...]
Community Perspectives on Data
Over the past few weeks, people in different parts of Sarasota County have been meeting up to exchange ideas about community data for community change. Here’s a sample of the perspectives that people have been sharing:
Ms. Sandra Terry
In Laurel, Ms. Sandra Terry started the conversation about community data with a walk through the community garden [...]
Community Data 2.0: Capitalizing Upon our Diversity
At SCOPE, one of our favorite books is Scott Page’s The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies. Page explains how “progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality.” Capitalizing upon our diversity for [...]
Community Data 2.0: Help reboot Sarasota’s future
The following editorial was published today in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
Community Data 2.0: Help reboot Sarasota’s future
By LISL LIANG and ALLISON PINTO
Guest Columnists
Read the paper, listen to the coffee-shop buzz, or chat with someone in Five Points Park, and you will notice that people are always pitching new ideas about how to make this community an [...]