Any time I am interested in these things in and around a city I start
with the City Data web site which has a LOT of information about a city.
With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.
Not exact matches
To that end, Fortune combined Census population
data with Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates by metropolitan area to find how average unemployment rates fared for the 100 largest
cities in the country.
Average home prices in Dandong rose nearly 1 percent in April from March, according to
data from the China Real Estate Association, compared
with a 0.5 percent decline in the same period a year earlier, although
city - wide averages tend not to fully reflect big price fluctuations at individual projects.
Access to our
data for
City of South Perth is only available to paid subscribers
with BNiQ access.
BMW was looking to develop similar functionality on its own, but the car maker didn't necessarily want to get into negotiating traffic
data access
with cities.
As the New York Times reports, the contest will supply local programmers and developers
with a stockpile of raw municipal
data sets to help them build
city - related apps for the web and smart phones.
He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the
city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting
with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him
with his study by providing
data.
The ranking contains
cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or
cities with unavailable
data, so some dangerous
cities don't appear on the list
By analyzing
data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely
cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.
About one in five homes resold in Perth are done so at a loss, new
data has revealed,
with the
city's western suburbs among the hardest hit.
But in reality, a bigger danger to many companies and to customers» sensitive
data comes from seemingly benign faces inside the same companies that are trying to keep hackers out: a loan officer tasked
with handling customers» e-mail, an attendant at a nursing home, a unit coordinator for the main operating room at a well - regarded
city hospital.
It's not surprising that the
city had the highest number of $ 5 million home listings,
with 1,153 at the time the
data was collected.
With that said, those still aren't the
cities these young adults are currently moving to, says LinkedIn, which determines these trends by looking at
data from its users, including the year they graduated from college and the locations of the jobs on their profiles.
Manufacturers will collaborate
with traffic experts and
city planners so that real - time vehicle
data can improve the entire transportation network by managing energy consumption and identify and solving issues as they are developing.
Using
data from Washington, D.C. - based think tank the Brookings Institution, NerdWallet compared 357 metro areas based on the demand in each
city for employees
with a STEM bachelor's degree, the average salary of STEM graduates and the health of the local economy.
Dozens of companies will need to work together to make sure you can travel from one point in a
city to another (safely and securely), feeding
data from the stoplights, handling the commerce between apps, and even communicating your location
with a future car traffic control center.
In July, some impatient Pokemon fans rushed to Sokcho, a
city close to the border
with North Korea — an area where the game can be played as it has not been classified as South Korean territory in Google Maps
data.
The New York
City startup takes the patient
data it collects from those centers — without identifying details, of course — and shares it
with pharmaceutical companies and researchers.
For civic governments trying to stay on top of all of this, it can mean overload: As more and more government departments — many of them already prodigious producers of
data — start moving their
data to the Internet,
cities are faced
with the question of what to do
with it all.
In Rio de Janeiro, the
city contracted
with IBM to open a one - of - a-kind operations centre to bring together
data from the
city's 30 - odd agencies.
New York
City - based Yext syncs
data from local businesses
with services like Instagram, Yelp, and Apple Maps to boost awareness and increase sales.
The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined
with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless
data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a
city setting.
That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census
data to rank the 34 American
cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those
with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).
The company said it didn't have further
data to share at this time, but noted that highest use times for the service coincide
with last call on Friday and Saturday nights in virtually every Uber
city globally.
Still, if the sheer number of Chicago exits are any indication — and coupled
with this year's enviable Inc. 5000
data — the
city might just be an ideal place to launch your next venture (or two, or three).
The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise
with demand - based pricing, while the
data from Seattle is only from that one
city.
If the region in which your headquarters is located is hit
with a natural disaster like a hurricane or the power goes out in your building or
city, but you have five or 15 or 50 employees spread out across the community, county or even the country, your entire business isn't suddenly out of commission, and all of your
data isn't in one place.
Both companies have been criticized, however, for not opening up their
data to
cities and not providing transit agencies
with information that would help officials gauge the services» impact on transportation.
The list came
with many surprising
data points: Muncie, Indiana, was named as the
city with the best access to financing, and Southern California (otherwise lauded as the «Silicon Beach») was said to have one of the least educated work forces in the U.S. — in the
cities of Bell Gardens, Maywood, Coachella, Soledad, and Wasco.
For one, not every state reported its crime
data (including Texas), and some states, like Wyoming, do not have any
cities with at least 100,000 residents.
Back when those ugly census numbers came out, a columnist
with the Detroit Free Press urged readers to think of the 2010
data «as the «thud» moment for the
city of Detroit.»
A recent Baidu study of phone
data gave clear evidence of 50
cities with areas of high vacancy.
It is a growing and profitable business, based in Jersey
City, N.J.,
with 825 employees and 29
data centers in nine countries.
A robust tool that helps you gauge trends by
city, region, and season
with search volume
data for more than 6,000 products and services.
Sources: US Census Bureau 2015 American Community Survey, Zillow * For this study we looked at the 100 biggest U.S.
cities by population
with available
data
The second largest municipality
with complete
data in our 23 -
city analysis was Rock Hill, which has fairly affordbale renters insurance.
The notice says the app misused the information, including public profile, page likes, birthday and current
city, by sharing it
with the
data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica.
Called the Airbnb Community Compact, the document outlines several ways that the popular company plans to work
with municipalities, including sharing anonymized
data on the hosts and guests who use the service, preventing illegal hotel landlords from operating on the platform, and promising to pay its «fair share» of hotel and tourist taxes in
cities that have them.
With the help of big
data and increased connectivity,
cities are undergoing unprecedented transformation.
Those homes are more likely to be purchased in the close suburbs rather than in urban cores, according to an analysis of U.S. Census
data by real - estate listing firm Trulia, which found that millennial growth in big -
city suburbs was 1.4 percent in 2013, compared
with 1.2 percent growth in dense
cities.
Methodology: To find the wealthiest
city in the U.S., GOBankingRates used March 2017 ZHVI
data from Zillow to first identify the
cities with the highest home values.
Launched in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles (
with a satellite office in New York
City), Patch of Land uses technology and
data to provide transparent and low - minimum real estate investing opportunities in both residential and commercial projects.
We do this using
data from Chicago, where the
city recently implemented an aggressive program to collect parking debts by seizing the cars and suspending the licenses of consumers
with large debts.
Adam will talk about the use of
data analytics, strategic partnerships and integrated solutions
with cities to impact future planning for disruptive new industries.
As a result, New Orleans is now in the top 10 % of best
cities to start a business in the country (WalletHub),
with startup activity 64 % above the national average (The
Data Center).
StreetEasy goes deeper than any other source, offering New York - specific information like whether a building has a doorman or an elevator,
with proprietary
data and useful search tools to help home shoppers and real estate professionals navigate the complex real estate markets within the five boroughs of New York
City, as well as Northern New Jersey and the Hamptons.
Earlier this month, Airbnb released
data that showed 3,500 listings in New York
City that belong to hosts
with three or more entire home listings on the platform.
On the most recent readings, there has been a distinct softening in most of the major housing markets,
with more than one
data series showing an outright fall in prices in the March quarter in several
cities.
It comes
with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and
data on the proven efficiencies of
cities.