How does the Data Midsouth team decide what data sources and reports to create?

Early on, we are prioritizing data sources that are:

1. already publicly available or that we have data sharing agreements to share publicly;

2. reasonably complete, accurate and high-quality; and

3. relate to civic issues and indicators of community wellbeing.

We have also been working with a small group of community partners and public agency data leads to develop a community data governance committee. The governance committee will launch in 2025 and include representatives from local government, nonprofits, grassroots community organizations, research institutions, and technical sectors. One of their roles will be to help us decide on new features and topics to build on the Data Midsouth platform.

We will also rely on our governance committee and users like you to help us advocate for access to more sources and data sets. If you have ideas for a new report or feature, you can “Create a New Post” on any of our feedback boards on Featurebase.