This is a guest post by Oliver Wise, director of the Socrata Data Academy. Local governments are stretched thin. Not only are they responsible for public services such as utilities, transportation, police, and tourism, they are also expected to respond to emerging issues that have no clear path forward: natural disasters, homelessness, and the opioid epidemic.
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