In episode 4 of our “Bitesize Insights for Data-Driven Leaders” Series, Jeanne Holm is the Chief Data Officer at her hometown, the City of Los Angeles. She works at the cross-section of civic innovation, open data, and education, addressing issues ranging from homelessness to digital equity technology innovation, data and analytics, and public-private partnerships.

As CDO, Jeanne focuses on taking data, like the number of people trained in the city’s workforce centers or how sustainable their practices are, and making it available and accessible to the taxpayers. To enable this, she works with individuals within the government that are not data scientists, and provides support and data literacy training in order to facilitate their understanding on  how to structure, manage and put context around data. She also cooperates with entities outside the government, like academic researchers, businesses, and advocacy groups who want to use the data but need the information and context around it.

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Read the full episode summary here: Episode #132