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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Health services personnel were able to view toxicology reports to identify the root cause of fatal overdoses and implement mitigation strategies. His first order of business was to create a data governance framework.

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Stop Soldier Suicide partners with Pariveda, AWS on mission to reduce suicide rates among US service members and veterans

AWS Public Sector Blog

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. Additional data source integrations are implemented using a custom Lambda connector. The suicide rate among veterans is still 1.5 times higher than that of the general population. veterans dying by suicide every day.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This paper examines the effects of UAC in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation. Methodology.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Ordinary versus Extraordinary Planning around the rebuilding of the United Medical Center in Southeast Washington DC | Part One: Rearticulating the system of health and wellness care East of the River ," 2018 -- " Part Two: Creating a graduate health and biotechnology research initiative on the St.

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Announcing the 2022-2023 AWS IMAGINE Grant winners

AWS Public Sector Blog

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is leveraging a data warehouse and AI and ML to develop a multi-faceted view of their constituent data, which will enable the organization to expand and personalize its donor outreach. The application cycle for next year’s AWS IMAGINE Grant will open in the spring of 2023. About the IMAGINE Grant.

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's a relatively new addition to the Streetwatch program, implemented last year, when during covid's peak, Times Square was seemingly empty compared to it being a busy office and theater district, and so problems seemed much more visible and frequent, even if the number of incidents wasn't much different from before. A final word.