Data
SCOPE’s Data Team has Re-Booted!
The Community Data Team meets weekly at SCOPE, both to support the development of a county-wide Community Data Collaborative and to develop data resources that can inform a variety of local community efforts. The team has recently “re-booted,” and now includes:
Laurel Corrao — Laurel is a resident of the Indian Beach / Sapphire Shores neighborhood [...]
Job Title: Green Map Data Steward
Purpose: The Sarasota County Green Map is an online, interactive map highlighting Sarasota County’s many sustainability features. It serves as a central, geographically-focused resource to assist community members and visitors in their efforts to live more sustainably. Green Map Data Stewards are needed to help take the Sarasota County Green Map to the next level [...]
Through the Census Looking Glass: Economic Equality Here in Sarasota County
In a recent blog post, Tim Dutton invited us to begin thinking together as a community about econonomic equality here in Sarasota County. Although we don’t yet have great local data available, here’s one way to begin taking a look:
In a recent Herald-Tribune article titled, “Census: Sarasota neighborhoods are among state’s richest,” reporter Zac Anderson notes that Sarasota [...]
More Equality, More Well-Being for All
I am a big fan of the TED.com talks about current Technology, Entertainment and Design issues emerging around the world. A month or so ago I came across a TED Talk by Richard Wilkinson, a British health economist. It is 16 amazing minutes of one chart after the next establishing the correlation between [...]
Data Byte: Many Eyes
How long is everybody’s morning commute here in Sarasota County? How safe are the airlines flying out of our local Sarasota-Bradenton Airport? There are a lot of great places to grab a cup of coffee here in Sarasota County. How much coffee are we consuming? Want to see for yourself? IBM has developed an online [...]
Attending to Equity Here in Sarasota County
This week at SCOPE we are participating in the e-conference of the Community Indicators Consortium. Today we listened to Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, talk about “Equity, Measurement and the Future.” She defined her organization as a “community-building intermediary,” which is one way to describe SCOPE as well.
She talked about that point [...]
From a Communiplexity Perspective, Are We Measuring What Counts?
This week, invitations went out for the 3rd Annual Communiplexity Summit, which SCOPE is once again co-hosting. What is “communiplexity,” you ask? It’s an orientation that combines the theories and approaches of complexity and community change, in order to discover and invent new ways to understand and participate in our own communities.
Complexity is a relatively [...]
3rd Annual Communiplexity Summit
The 3rd Annual Communiplexity Summit will be taking place here in Sarasota on Friday, November 18th from 8:30 - 4:30 in the Community Room at the Herald-Tribune. SCOPE will be co-hosting the summit with Banyan Sprout, Inc. “Communiplexity” refers to combined theories of community and complexity which, when explored together, can yield innovative approaches to [...]
Data Byte: National Priorities Project - A Federal Priorities Database
How many federal dollars are invested in Head Start, 21st Century Learning, or Pell grants here in Sarasota County, and how do these investments relate to reductions in families experiencing poverty in our community? How many federal dollars is the U.S. spending on Medicare/Medicaid or Social Security Retirement Insurance here in Sarasota County, and how [...]
Calling All Residents of Sarasota County – Wisdom Needed for Redistricting
Every ten years, statewide redistricting provides an opportunity for us to ask ourselves: How fair and just are the voting district boundaries in Florida for those of us living in Sarasota County? How do we as citizens propose to adjust the boundaries so that they are as fair and just as possible?
On Tuesday, August 30, we [...]