"This mayor uses data and metrics to determine whether policies are failing or succeeding," said Howard Wolfson, the deputy mayor for government affairs and communications.
A12 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 BlOfmberg Offers Glimpse Of His Financial Picture Michael R. Bloomberg, the Republican businessman running for mayor, disclosed data about his financial holdings as required by law.
"And this is a moment where, because of the budget crisis, the accuracy of the mayor's data becomes a critical thing".
An infrastructure plan for London launched in July by Boris Johnson, the city's ambitious mayor, mentions data 25 times and devotes a section to how they can become a "key element of planning and operating cities".
The mayor's data site, said Garcetti spokesman Jeff Millman, will be linked to a new performance Web page (performance.lacity.org) that is considerably more extensive than the one produced last fall.
It is interesting how often we're also hearing mayors talk about data as a sort of confidence booster.
Still, there is a key figure stubbornly refusing to hand over important data: Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
After racing through yet another PowerPoint presentation filled with numerous bar graphs and small-font economic data, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday took a minidetour during his final budget address to praise someone's record: His own.
While the number of people entering the island south of 96th Street was the same in 1998 as it was 50 years earlier -- 3.6 million people a day -- the number of cars entering the area shot up over that time, from 657,000 a day to more than 1.3 million now, according to the mayor's campaign data.
Some decision-makers have their own ideas about how to use the Wellbeing Project's data: mayor Kevin McKeown (an opponent of those new residential buildings) mentions that its documentation of the high stress felt by residents of houses in the vicinity of Santa Monica airport will provide valuable evidence in his case against the city's obligation to run an airport at all.
