Q&A
CORE's access to agency data and data personnel
1:28:13
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Linda Tigani discusses CORE's current limitations in accessing agency data and their strategies for working with available data sources. She also explains the composition of CORE's data team.
- CORE currently does not have direct access to agency data but plans to set up MOUs in the future
- The organization works with publicly available data to ensure transparency
- CORE's director of research and policy leads data efforts, with support from a new associate focused on quantitative data
- Tigani emphasizes the need for more publicly available, disaggregated data from city agencies
Linda Tigani
1:28:13
At this point in time we do not have access to agency data.
1:28:17
We would like to set up MOUs with agencies to be able to pull in their data but we have not had the opportunity to do that as of yet.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:28:26
Okay and do you have a data person on your team?
Linda Tigani
1:28:30
Our director of research and policy serves as everything with respect to data.
1:28:38
So she has been creating partnerships across city government but also with local organizations as well as national institutes like the Urban Institute to be able to identify data sets that are pertinent to the community equity priorities.
1:28:54
We also recently brought on an associate within that particular team that has a focus on quantitative data.
1:29:03
So between the both of them, we've been able to work with publicly available data.
1:29:08
But I do want to underscore that in order to be transparent, we want to use the data that is publicly shared so that there is no questions by community on how we got to our particular finding.
1:29:22
But in that, we want to further push the administration and city agencies to release more publicly available, to release more data to the public but also to make sure that that data is disaggregated.
1:29:37
And chapter 78 does call for standard disaggregation guidelines to be used by all city agencies so we look forward to receiving those when they're shared.