Urban Data Pioneers

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Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis. UDP teams meet to identify a problem, ask questions, analyze data and produce a visual analytic report. The goal of Urban Data Pioneers is for teams to learn data analysis techniques together and inform the Mayor city leadership with analysis of data that leads to policy. If you are a community member, and want to join the UDP teams please complete this form.

Mission
Improve the use of data throughout the City of Tulsa. 

Vision
Urban Data Pioneers are the trailblazers within the City of Tulsa who lead the way in identifying best ways to utilize data, educating others, and delivering results based upon data.

Mission, Vision and Values

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Cohort 7 - COVID Edition (March 5, 2020 - May 28, 2020) | Watch the Presentations

• Air Quality Sensor Placement - Method
• Nuisance Violation AI Implementation
• Sustainability Scorecard - Method

Cohort 6 (September 5, 2019 - November 21, 2019)

• 311 IVR - Project delayed to the next cohort. 
• Effect of property values on mobility - Method(Waiting on documentation)
• Properties most likely to catch fire - Method - Dashboard
• Snap Utilization - Method
• Pedestrian Crash Assessment - Method 

Cohort 5 (May 7, 2019 - July. 25, 2019)

• 311 IVR Project - Method
• 911 Call Center Staffing - Method 
• HR Job Analysis - Method (Will need Jupyter Notebook)
• Refuse AI - Method
• Tennis Court Project - Method - Code - Live Dashboard - Live Data
  
  

Cohort 4 (Sept. 6, 2018 - Nov. 29, 2018)

• Cohort 4 Team Formation Meetup
• Nuisance Frequent Fliers
• Optimizing 911 Call Center Staffing
• OSHA Workplace Injuries
• Rising Eviction Rates: The Path to Stabilizing Tulsa’s Tenancy Crisis
• Zoning and Sales Tax: What Impact Do Zoning District Characteristics Have on The Efficiency of Sales Tax Production?

Cohort 3 (October 6, 2017 -  Jan. 19, 2018)

• Cohort 3 Team Formation Meetup
• Blight and Violent Crime
• Benchmarking Land Value 
• Building a Predictive Model for Neighborhood Stability
• Mapping Spending on Schools
• Measuring Neighborhood Walkability 

Cohort 2 (June 9, 2017 - August 18, 2017)

• Team Formation Meetup
• Vacant Land Toolbox
• Blight Inventory
• Population Growth
• Tulsa Data Science - Drivers of Per Capita Income
• Final Presentation Agenda
• Final Presentation Intro

Cohort 1 (Feb. 24, 2017 - April 27, 2017)

• Street Prioritization 
• Traffic Crashes
• Land Use Efficiency
• Blight and Violent Crime
• Population Growth (no slides)