Joining the ranks of Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and many others, the city of Madison, Wisconsin, has built a tool to help residents visualize the data that makes municipal government tick.
Mayor Paul Soglin introduced the tool in conjunction with his 2018 capital budget last week, the Cap Times reports. It’s basically a geospatial depiction of the numbers — one-time expenses like building and infrastructure projects — in the form of a color-coded map. Madison was one of 16 cities to join Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities initiative in October of 2016, and this project is a result of that partnership.
Image: Credit: City of Madison
