Start with Syracuse
Projects focus on the places and services residents recognize: blocks, branches, snow routes, dashboards, and public requests.
Snow routes
Winter operations
Library access
OCPL and branches
Neighborhoods
Block-level field notes
City systems
Services, OKRs, and open data
Project desk
Built like civic infrastructure.
Every project starts with a local question, points back to sources, and aims to be useful enough for residents, reporters, board members, and city staff.
Interactive Report
Poverty Data
Below the Line 2026
An updated look at Syracuse poverty, housing, education, work, transportation, broadband access, and peer-city change since the original report.
Peer cities
Source notes
PDF report
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Streamlit App
Snow
Syracuse Snow Map
Real-time visualization of snow removal progress and plow locations across the city's residential streets.
Map
Operations
Launch project →
Streamlit App
Libraries
Census Data by Library Location
Explore demographic insights and library usage patterns across Onondaga County through an interactive dashboard.
OCPL
Demographics
Launch project →
Data Story
Libraries
OCPL Library Use Story
A public-facing look at city library visits, circulation, digital use, programming, and Central versus branch patterns.
Story
Branches
Read story →
AI Web App
Civic Services
Cityline Workaround App
An alternative interface to help residents decide how to submit a service request through Syracuse's Cityline system.
AI app
Service requests
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Performance Dashboard
City OKRs
Syracuse Performance Dashboard
A source-backed rebuild of the city performance dashboard using the original OKRs, current public data, and clearly labeled gaps.
OKRs
Public data
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AI Field Notes
Street Scale
Cumberland Ave Atlas
A privacy-first one-street AI atlas for the 1300 block near Colvin: monthly photos, public records, and field observations.
Field notes
Privacy-first
Open atlas →
The DataCuse standard
Local, sourced, and built to be used.
DataCuse is not a folder of charts. It is a public workbench for Syracuse: direct links to evidence, clear caveats, strong visual storytelling, and tools that make city systems easier to understand.
Show the evidence
Reports and tools keep source links, dates, definitions, and gaps visible instead of hiding uncertainty.
Make it interactive
Maps, filters, app flows, and narrative pages help people test a question instead of reading a static claim.
Field notes
Deep dives and build notes.
Long-form analyses from the local data stack, kept close to the project pages they explain.
Interactive Analysis April 29, 2026
Below the Line 2026
Rebuilding the original poverty analysis with expanded metrics, peer-city baselines, and careful notes on COVID-era data quality.
Library Data May 2026
OCPL Library Use Story
A public reporting page that turns the latest city library dashboard into a readable civic data story.
Launch Essay March 21, 2026
Introducing Datacuse MCP
How Syracuse open data, OCPL library workflows, and county, state, and federal sources came together in one MCP server.
CITYLINE
Data Analysis December 31, 2025
Cityline Snow Request Analysis
A look at how residents make snow plow service requests to Cityline, even when there is no official option to do so.