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New Orleans fights blight with data
BlightStatus makes complex government data easier to access, empowering New Orleans residents with updates about blight in their community.
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Long Beach uses AddressIQ to focus emergency medical resources
Using data-integration to help prevent high-cost, high intervention services for people calling 911 unnecessarily.
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Indianapolis leads on opening police data with launch of Comport
Indianapolis uses Comport, an open data portal for police data, to be more transparent.
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