CivMetrics Data, Documents and News
CivMetrics believes in measuring and presenting critical data, information and documents regarding local development, construction and governance. Our data covers selected critical types of community development, construction and programs. CivMetrics also seeks to provide macro context along with the micro details. See our actionable data and information regarding local economics, demographics, and market conditions. This includes data, RFPs, financing documents and other information on housing, labor, business conditions and demographics. Select any of the CivMetrics targeted topics for updated data, developments and directories.
CivMetrics Data, Documents and News
CivMetrics collects critical data, information and documents regarding local development, construction and governance. See our actional data and documents, including RFPs, financing documents and the latest stats on local metrics such as housing, labor, demographics and business conditions. Select a CivMetrics topic below for target data and documents.
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Development & Housing
Local development, housing and construction projects, including large public construction projects.
Economics
Data on employment, inflation, labor markets, local GDP, housing, and other critical measures of local economic and business conditions.
Infrastructure
Large infrastructure, such as airports, transit, ports, stadiums and other large scale projects.
Incentives
Credits and incentives in connection with new local development, expansion or company relocations.
Civic Services
Non-profit and government services, including large private service organizations, cultural institutions, and units of local government.
People & Livability
Demographics and livability information, such as crime, weather, pollution, health, and other quality-of-life measures.
Latest News
GIS: An Indispensable Tool For Analyzing Criminal Patterns
Everything that happens in the world happens in a specific location. The ability to situate and analyze that piece of information in combination with a million other bits of data from satellites or drones or ground-based devices provides vantage points that clears...
Analysis Of Prescription Data Leads To Arrest of Pill Mill Doctors
Doctors operating out of ‘Pill Mills’ has been a prime reason for the opioid epidemic in the US. Yet the days of freely-prescribed pain medication may be over soon. Teams of data analysts from the Justice Department are firing up their computers and are crunching data...
Police Chiefs Group Restricts Access To Violent Crime Data, To Chagrin of Researchers
The Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) has decided to discontinue its semi-annual report on violent crime in big American and Canadian cities because it feared that its data was being misused. Researchers have deplored the decision and contended that timely data...
Florida Reaches For More Data To Fix Its Prison System
Florida spends nearly $2.4 billion a year to keep more than 100,000 people behind bars. The state runs not only one of the largest and most expensive prison systems in the US, but also among the most racially disparate. Nearly half of the incarcerated are...
Lack Of Local Data Hampers Criminal Justice Reform
The effort to bring about effected criminal justice reforms in the US is being hindered by the lack of data about the justice system at the county level. There are more people locked away in local jails and state prisons than in federal prisons. And for the more than...
‘Dirty Data’ Reinforces Bias in Predictive Policing: NYU Study
A study conducted by researchers from New York University revealed that existing biased and corrupt policing could also infect predictive policing software by introducing “dirty data” into the algorithm. This situation can be further exacerbated by the lack of...
FBI Requests More Resources For Data Analysis And Cybersecurity
The FBI is asking Congress to add $70.5 million to its budget so it can hire more data analysts and expand its cybersecurity capacity in the face of growing threats from hackers supported by rogue nation-states. Derek B. Johnson reports on the FBI’s plan to beef up...
EU May Give Researchers Free Reign to Text Mine As Millions of Papers Released From Paywalls
Millions of research papers in Europe, previously behind journal paywalls, may soon become open for text and data mining, thanks to new legislation which will receive final approval in January. Academic researchers can rejoice. But if you're a startup, getting access...
Sentiment Analysis, Text Mining Added to Sparq Platform
Vision Critical has upgraded its Sparq Platform with the addition of text mining and sentiment analysis to its capabilities. The upgrade was part of Vision Critical’s push toward a deeper understanding of their clients’ customers through customer profiling,...
You Can Now Analyze a Machine Learning Model Without Writing Code With Google’s “What-If” Tool
Google's newly-launched What-If Tool gives users the ability to analyze a machine learning (ML) model without having to write code for it. Given the increasing scrutiny leveled on the opaque nature of machine learning, the What-If tool will offer greater accessibility...
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