Sharing a data dashboard

When you are the City of New York, sharing data -- a good thing -- inevitably means that someone will criticize you. The city shares its performance data through something called the Citywide Performance Rating; it's available here. It's a successor to the old Mayor's Management Reports and collects and reports on city agency performance in eight major areas (called "Themes" on the city's website): Citywide Administration, Community Services, Economic Development and Business Affairs, Education, Infrastructure, Legal Affairs, Public Safety, and Social Services. The data are updated monthly.

Here's a screenshot of the Citywide Performance Data main page:

In future posts I'll look at each area in more detail. For the moment, here's a link to an unusually thoughtful article in the NY Times about using data - and, perhaps just as much, about the vicissitudes of making one's data dashboard public.