Data Engineering
The Data Engineering team manages the City’s Cloud Data Platform. The Data Platform prepares data for multiple analytic uses, including operational analytics for City Departments and datasets for the Open Data Portal.
This centralization of data storage and management enables more efficient decision-making.
How We Work
We take in data from City departments and partner systems.
We publish datasets to Cleveland's Open Data Portal.
We ensure reliability through automation while maintaining security around data.
We dynamically scale for performance and cost optimization.
Why We Work
We provide a common data platform to better allow data access to improve City operations.
We enable data sharing between departments.
We support data publishing to the Open Data Platform to improve transparency.
Cleveland's Public Github
These repositories contain example code on how to utilize the City's Open Data Portal and other analytics on publicly available data sources.
Open Data Policy & Data Governance Board Executive Order
Through the Data Policy and Executive Order, the City shows its commitment to managing data and information in accordance with current industry practices and proactively plan for the needs of an ever-changing city.
The Strategic Plan
The Data Engineering team contributes to the Stategic Plan by working towards the following initiatives:
Strategic Plan Initiative A4: Centralization of Data
Initiative A4 is part of the Performance Focus Area of the Strategic Plan.