From left, Dr. Fred Phillips, Anne Tillery, Dr. Nelia Dunbar, and Dr. John Metesh, Montana state geologist and president of the Association of American State Geologists (AASG), at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 15. Metesh presented the report authors from New Mexico with the John C. Frye Memorial…
As a smaller city, Santa Fe often falls between the cracks when it comes to statistics and data.
The newly posted Santa Fe Data Platform at www.santafedata.org seeks to satisfy numbers geeks looking to take a deep dive into statistics. But there’s a purpose as well, proponents say: The better the information, the better the decisions people throughout the city can make about government, business and daily life.
The idea for a data platform came from the Santa Fe-based Thornburg Foundation and was presented to the now-inactive Creative Santa Fe, which shepherded the project as the organizationâs last community campaign.