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Put Technology to Work

Goal 1: Ensure Availability of Information, Programs, and City Services
Objective 1: Provide for the Efficient Access and Appropriate Management of the City’s Data
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
PTW Open Arlington Open Datasets Published/ Shared Services (Office of Strategic
1.1.10 Year Initiatives)
Summary:

The goal of Open Arlington is to provide the public Open Data Portal Users
with a platform for accessing, visualizing and 6,000
interacting with City data. It acts as a conduit between
5,000
technical and non‐technical users and increases
transparency between the City and the public. 4,000

3,000
The Open Arlington Open Data Portal provides
residents with interactive web maps as well as 2,000
downloadable datasets in spreadsheet or geospatial
1,000
format. In an effort to provide the public with relevant
and insightful information about the City, the Office of ‐
Strategic Initiatives continues to research 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
opportunities for developing and publishing new
Target Actual
datasets and/or interactive web maps onto the Open
Data Portal.

In order to assess the use and effectiveness of the
Open Arlington Open Data Portal, the Office of
Strategic Initiatives tracks use metrics through Google
Analytics. By understanding patterns of use such as
number of page views, user patterns, top datasets,
etc., OSI can continuously augment the ease and
usefulness of Open Arlington.

Update:
The number of Open Data Portal users increased
th
dramatically to 5,422 during the 4 quarter up from
rd
2,577 in the 3 . The addition of three tables for
Municipal Courts (Arrest Warrants, New Cases, Closed
Cases) continue to drive new and returning visitors to
the website.

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