Mike Flowers, NYC's Chief Analytics Officer, discusses municipal data adoption during a Q&A panel at Data Driven NYC in June 2013.
Prediction Held up
Mike Flowers predicts future NYC mayors must burn money to rebuild silos
“The data silos thing, that's busted. So somebody's literally going to have to throw money away to reverse that. Reverse the fact that the fire department knows what the buildings department knows, what the finance department knows, et cetera. So I don't see th…”
Assertion Supported
Cities historically measured 911 response times from dispatch, not call termination
“The city of New York has never, and no other city in the United States, or, you know, some of our larger counterparts in Europe that we were able to check with, ah, everybody does not do it from that. They do it from this. The moment of dispatch to the arrival…”
Assertion Partly supported
NYC integrated six emergency systems to track end-to-end 911 response times
“So, what we were able to do was take these six different systems involved with nine one response, and we're talking about crime, fire medical, right, about 30 to 40,000 a day. And stitch them together. So that I now know from the moment we hang up, right, the …”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
FDNY staff manually searched city websites while trucks rolled to active fires
“Every time a truck goes out to a fire what they do is they have five people basically searching city websites to find out what else the city knows about those locations.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mike Flowers notes very few US cities leverage cross-agency data
“The question is, are you leveraging what another agency knows on the map of delivering your widget? And the answer to that is I think it's a very, very small number.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
New York City mortgage fraud totals roughly $400 million annually
“Mortgage fraud is about four hundred million dollars a year in the city of New York.”