Example Data Visualization

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I'm glad that an image was used for this category of ideas. The scope of city projects and operations is too large for the average citizen to navigate and understand without help. Data visualisation techniques that have become popular on the web over the past decade can go a long way to overcoming the complexity of navigating and digesting the performance of our city services.

data.gov serves this purpose for the federal government. Here is an example chart (https://explore.data.gov/Population/AGI-Wage-Income-By-State-in-2007/fqkh-g4cx). http://www.socrata.com/ is the vendor that provided the platform.

KC doesn't necessarily need something that sophisticated. The important thing is to use data visualization to drive attention to the high value or high cost operations and initiatives. That way we as citizens can easily pay attention to what is the most important.