March 2019 Newsletter: Join Us for an Engaging Discussion, SEOW Portal Updates, Upcoming Events, and We're Hiring

March 6, 2019

What's New in Data

Opportunities in Using Cross Sector Data

Trinity College Liberal Arts Action Lab

and

CTData

invite you to an exciting discussion about cross sector data on

March 19th from 10-11:30 am

. Please see more details and registration

below

.

Join us for an interactive discussion about our recent data liberation project:

Health in Hartford’s Neighborhoods

. We used public secondary data on health and housing and found some compelling new issues for advocates. We want to hear from others about their data work and continue to generate powerful insights to expand opportunity in Hartford. We know there are great primary and secondary data available and want to connect to build that data ecosystem together.Feel free to share this event with others who might be interested and please reach out with any questions.We look forward to connecting on the 19th.

Register here

The SEOW Data Prevention Portal Has Gotten a Makeover!

We’ve been hard at work, but it’s finally here! Thanks to the collaboration with our partners at the

DMHAS Center for Prevention Evaluation and Statistics (CPES)

at UConn Health, the SEOW Prevention Data Portal is better than ever! Read the statement from CPES on our blog to hear more about these exciting additions. You can also see the changes for yourself

here

.

Read more on our blog

We're Hiring!

CTData seeks an energetic person who loves data, believes in our mission, wants to grow our organization, and join our small team as the

Assistant Director

.

The Assistant Director will work closely with the Executive Director to execute the mission of the organization. The Assistant Director will contribute to several areas of the Collaborative, including development, the CTData Academy, and our Census State Data Center work with the goal of building and supporting a statewide learning community around the use of data to drive planning and policy.

Apply here

CTData Academy

We had to reschedule our

Data Storytelling

workshop on 1/30 due to inclement weather. We held one workshop on Friday, 2/8 and another on Friday, 2/15. If you were unable to make either session, we will be hosting more workshops in the spring, so stay tuned for those dates!

Upcoming CTData Academy events:

  • March 19: Open Data Call, 3:00-4:00 pm

Details & registration

CTData NewsMorgan Finn