Data
Community Data 2.0: North Port — the Countdown is On!
Next Thursday, March 15, people who live and work in North Port will be gathering for half a day to think and talk together about how everybody can use data to make their own community even better. SCOPE is co-hosting with the City of North Port. We are really looking forward to it – will [...]
The Geography of Benefits
Here in Sarasota County, what share of our income is from Unemployment Insurance? How about Medicare? How about Social Security? The New York Times has created an interactive map that makes it possible for anybody to see patterns in the allocation of benefits relating to six types of government programs over the last four decades. [...]
Through the Census Looking Glass - Take 2: A Closer View of Economic Equality in Sarasota County
In a recent blog post, we examined local patterns of economic equality in Sarasota County through a map of median household income by Census Tract. What does our community look like when we zoom in a bit further, to census block groups? Check out this map to see. As local community data efforts continue to [...]
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 [...]