You don’t have to be a developer to use Chicago’s rich sets of data!
As the principal planning agency for the City of Chicago, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) promotes the comprehensive growth and well-being of the City and its neighborhoods. In this work, DPD principally uses three types of data:
- quantitative research-driven data about who lives and works in our neighborhoods
- qualitative observational data to provide context about the quality of our neighborhood environments
- transactional project data which describes investments either planned or underway.
Join us on Wednesday, March 2 from 6pm — 7:30pm at the Microsoft Technology Center to hear how DPD would like to use these data to support better decision-making on how and where to invest scarce resources in order to maximize the benefits of our work for residents throughout Chicago. Our presenter will be Brad McConnell, the Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Operations for the City of Chicago.