Virginia DOT Shows What Visual Data Can Do

An award-winning prototype from a team at the Virginia Department of Transportation shows how emerging tools are bringing data closer to the people who need it.

The website https://data.virginia.gov/ is just an example of how the state might make better use of its data to accomplish a variety of goals, such as advertising the state to prospective students and employers.

…they thought the tool was broken because it wasn’t displaying properly. But really, the data was bad, he said – no one had ever looked at the data that thoroughly.

"It’s driving people to look at their data, and they are cleaning it up," Donley said. "As a result, they’ve got to be making better decisions, because the data’s more accurate."

by Colin Wood

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/data/Virginia-DOT-Shows-What-Visual-Data-Can-Do.html

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