#DataSmartSummit

LEVERAGING GEOSPATIAL DATA: THE LA

STORY

LILIAN CORALFormer Chief Data Officer

City of Los Angeles

@lcoral

SARI LADIN-SIENNEActing Chief Data Officer

& Ash Fellow

City of Los Angeles

@sariladin

SUMMIT ON DATA-SMART GOVERNMENT #DataSmartSummitNovember 2017

Leveraging Geospatial Data: The Los

Angeles Story

Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti

City of Los Angeles

November 7, 2017 / #DataLA

Agenda

I. DataLA and the Value of Spatial

Thinking

II. Exercise

III. The GeoHub Vision

IV. Discussion

The Los

Angeles Vision Data → Digital

A pathway to transformation

• Executive Directive 3 launched

commitment to open data

• Data team works with

departments to make data

accessible, visible, accessible,

understandable, linked, and

trustworthy

• Focus on expanding citywide use

of analytics to drive decision-

making and performance

Our Approach

Spur innovation and creative problem

solving

Grow Open Data & Civic

Engagement

Foster strong culture of data

governance and analytics

Open Data Portal GeoHub

Dashboards & Apps

Open Data

2 data

portals

15+ apps

Open Data democratizes

innovation in government.

GeoHub makes LA’s data

accessible, interoperable, and

actionable.

A Smarter Los Angeles

A Livable and Sustainable City

A Safe CityWith a Focus on Public Safety

A Prosperous CityGood Jobs for All Angelenos

A Well Run CityEfficient and Innovative

A Tech CommunityPart of the Fabric of the

City

Find patterns by

neighborhood

Discover

variations in

resources by

neighborhood

Map community

vitality

Encourage

decision makers

to think spatially

Deliver spatially-

informed

programming

Evaluate change

by space and

time on the block

level

Exercise

● Residents of Futureville are frequently complaining

about road closures when the public right of way is

blocked by road work and street construction.

● A group of local businesses have come forward to the city

stating that consistent road work is hurting their business

as lanes and parking spots are blocked and the noise

pollution is negatively affecting their customers’

experience.

Challenge

● There are different departments that oversee a range of

construction efforts in Futureville. For example: Bureau of

Street Services manages road repairs to arterial and

residential streets while the Bureau of Engineering

manages bridge and other infrastructure improvements.

● How would you use mapping technology to address this

challenge?

Challenge (continued)

Our solution

Street Wize

Why it works

● Centralized system with automated feeds of all construction projects blocking

public right of way

● Map-based display is convenient for user to lookup a specific address and

see roads blocked nearby

● Centralized data is actively shared with Waze to keep drivers informed

● Departments can better plan and prioritize projects more efficiently; reducing

traffic and disruption

The Vision for the GeoHub

Power of Location for Insights

Implement Performance

Management

Vision ZeroIncrease Recreation

Opportunities

Create More Affordable

Housing

Improve Earthquake

Preparedness

Reduce Traffic

Congestion

Improve Emergency

Response Times

Reduce

Homelessness

Create Job

Availability

Use Less Energy Encourage Start-

ups

Make Parking Easier

Improve Water

Conservation

The Hub Approach

Enterprise GIS

Partners • County

• State

• Federal

• NGOs …

Citizens

Startups

Academia

NGOs

Outside

Public

Engagement

Inside

Enterprise-Wide Collaboration

Living AtlasAPIs

Applications

Engineering

Police

Fire

Planning

DOT, Sanitation, Housing, Metro…

Developers

Dashboards

Journalists

Community GIS

Social Media

Event

Calendar

Businesses

Surveys

Open Data

Adoption

• Worked with GIS power users first (Jan – July 2016)

• Held first GeoHub workshop in July 2016 and asked all departments to send

data stewards and GIS teams

• Workshop expanded interest in GeoHub with 13 departments attending and 40

participants

• Continuously working with departments to use GeoHub as data sharing

platform and streamlining interdepartmental data collection

GeoHub Objectives

• Advance communication across departments

• Spur innovation through collaboration

• Increase community engagement

Spur innovation through collaboration

Create online gallery by topic area to

inspire smart mapping in Los Angeles

Develop new examples to highlight

the value of location for data-driven

government

Advance communication across departments

● Share data in permission-enabled

groups designed for cross-functional

projects

● Overlay layers of information from

different sources to reveal new

insights

● Bring GIS and policy analysts

together on one platform to maximize

impact

Increase community engagement

● Make data accessible by showing

information on a block-level

● GeoHub Storymaps: Develop a

narrative to accompany the data

● Hold GeoHub trainings in the

community to encourage

neighborhoods to use maps to

advocate for their community

● Clean Streets Index

What’s next?

• GeoHub groups as a source for institutional knowledge

• More initiative pages to leverage multiple spatial sources in one, targeted area

in coordination with policymakers, spatial analysts, academia, private and

nonprofit partners

• Public citizen accounts to increase co-creation and crowdsource great ideas

from our community!

Q&A