Many court systems lack basic data about themselves, including about their criminal-sentencing decisions. This means that when a judge considers a sentence for a criminal defendant, he or she has no way to evaluate it against others handed down for similar crimes in the same state, or even the same county. This variability in criminal […]
Ron Pereira talks with Tyler Kleykamp about his role as Chief Data Officer, who works in the Office of Policy and Management. Data is at the heart of many improvements, and he supports many different agencies and the general public. His role is to make more state government data available to the public, and to […]
The Denver Public Library saved $184,280 in soft costs through three innovations. The largest of the three was the DePop process (new popular books were labeled “Pop”. When these books went into regular circulation, the labels were removed in a process called DePopping). Their old process had only 67% of new items being DePopped correctly, […]