The Chattanooga Peak Academy is Online!

Chattanooga has just wrapped up it’s very first Peak Academy Online!  Due to COVID-19, the City of Chattanooga’s Office of Performance Management and Open Data has been unable to hold in-person Peak Academies at its usual intervals.  After it became apparent in the data that COVID-19 was here to stay longer than expected, OPMOD quickly…

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Fire Chattalytics Project

A new platform has streamlined fire inspections for commercial properties in the City of Chattanooga. Factors from at least three different databases have been combined for the Chattalytics Fire Inspection Model which predicts and assigns a fire risk score to commercial buildings so that inspectors can prioritize them for inspection. The fire risk scores are…

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Policing and Racial Equity Dashboard

The City of Chattanooga and the police department are working together to track crimes and arrests by creating a Policing and Racial Equity Dashboard. The dashboard displays closed investigations from the Chattanooga Police Department. The dashboard included citations, arrests, use of force, and citizen complaints by race from the last two and a half years.…

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Introducing Chattalytics!

The Office of Performance Management and Open Data (OPMOD) is excited to announce its new data driven initiative called Chattalytics. Chattalytics is the next evolution of the city’s data program. Using the methods and tools of data science, the city will identify projects that help solve real world problems with data. Looking forward, not back. …

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Re-launch of ChattaData

Have you ever wanted to know how long it takes for the Fire Department to respond? Or how often City code violations are cited to court? What about how long it takes to get a permit issued with the Land Development Office?  If so, you’re not alone. The City of Chattanooga wants those answers as…

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Improve your data chops with the Chattanooga Data Academy

In an effort to increase data driven functions throughout the City, the Office of Performance Management and Open Data officially launched the Chattanooga Data Academy in the Spring of 2019.  The initial Data Academy offerings are modeled off of a similar academy started in Durham, NC as well as San Francisco, CA.  In an age…

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Audit Report on the City’s Open Data Program

The city’s open data program had its first internal audit after its formation a few years ago. A big thank you for the Internal Audit’s hard work putting it together. There are several recommendations we are working on currently based on their findings and several more to be worked on later.   You can read…

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2018 Open Data Report

We are happy to announce the release the 2018 Open Data Report. This report speaks to the City’s progress on the open data program and looks to the future on ensuring transparency and accessibility of public data online. Under an Executive Order issued in 2014, Mayor Andy Berke developed an open data policy and increased…

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National Day of Civic Hacking 2018

Policy Design Camp For this National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) we decided to try something a bit different. Instead of focusing on data and coding we instead focused on developing policy recommendations for dockless shared mobility devices. This unique design camp engaged members of our community in a discussion about how Chattanooga can benefit…

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You Are Peak

We have a saying here at the Chattanooga Peak Academy, “You Are Peak.” This means that it is the people who go through the training that make Peak what it is. Without them and their hard work, Peak is just another training. The moment Peak stops being used and useful for city employees is the…

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