Finding Stories in the Mayor’s Management Report

Each year, dozens of news articles (and more school projects, data stories, and research papers than we know about!) are written using data from the Mayor’s Management Report (MMR). This report has been published twice a year since the 1970s, and data since 2016 is available in an Open Data set and an interactive tool called the Dynamic Mayor’s Management Report. In this presentation, analysts who compile the MMR at the Mayor’s Office of Operations will show you the data behind the news stories. We’ll walk you through using public data to identify trends that are relevant to public interest, and how to find multiple data points related to the same theme so you can see the broader picture. This event is an introduction to a specific dataset and various uses, and is suitable for anyone with interest in this topic, regardless of technical skill. Anyone who is interested in creating narratives or data stories for school or public use, or who is interested in understanding how data makes it from City agencies to the pages of a newspaper, is welcome to attend.