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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
AI, Data Science Harnessed in the Fight Against Opioid Abuse
Every 22 days, the number of people killed in the US by opioid-induced overdoses exceeds the number of people killed in September 11, 2001 attacks by Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington D.C. Meanwhile, the Council of Economic Advisers reported in November 2017 the...
Stop Hoarding: Machine Learning Can Help Prune Your Data At Its Source
They say you can never be too rich or too thin (don’t know about that!) but you can definitely have too much data. If your firm is accumulating more data that you can process, then you must reconsider your data management strategy. Data storage cost money and hoarding...
Five Most Useful Tools for Data Scientists, As Determined By Random Group of Data Scientists
A stable of data scientists were asked to name five of their most useful tools in persuading raw data to give up its secrets. Here are their answers (in quotes) as compiled by Ericka Chickowski on SearchBusinessAnalytics.com: 1. Python. “Not so much a distinct piece...
Get Your Flashlights: Organizations Grappled With “Dark Data”
New research from data analytics firm Exasol indicated that up to 82% of all organizations they surveyed are clueless about the location of their most important data. Locating and accessing dark data is now the main challenge facing enterprises migrating from basic...
Franken-Algorithms: When Code Takes on a Life of Its Own
Some algorithms look dangerously similar to that monster stumbling around England... Andrew Smith writes in The Guardian: “Here’s the problem. Between the “dumb” fixed algorithms and true AI lie the problematic halfway house we’ve already entered with scarcely a...
Missing: Statistical Due Diligence in Big Data Analysis
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
Twitter Spat Between Data Scientists Raises Question: Should Researchers Share Their Data?
A movement called Open Science has been stirring debate in the scientific community about whether raw scientific data should be made available to everyone who wants to use it. Better data makes for better science. But the issue isn't so simple. Data has monetary and...
Is Data Overload an “Extinction Event” for IT Firms?
Moogsoft CEO Phil Tee likened the pursuit of data by enterprises to a Ponzi scheme. "The more data you have, the more data you need to understand the data you have," said Tee who also claimed that “more data means less understanding.” Tee said that the worsening...
Using Text Mining to ID the Author of the Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed
DataCamp’s Chief Data Scientist David Robinson set out to use his tidytext package (co-authored with Julia Silge) to identify the author of the anonymous op-ed that appeared in the New York Times last week. Robinson catalogues the difficult problems he faced in his...
Two Charged With Fraud in Sale of Defective Body Armor to Federal Government
Two sub-contractors have been accused of defrauding an unnamed government agency by selling defective body armor. The total haul from the fraud: a whopping $3,500. Jane Musgrave reports in the Palm Beach Post: “Dan Thomas Lounsbury Jr., owner of Tactical Products...
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